Life, to me personally, I believe it is a finite thing, my consciousness, and I want to use it as much as possible.

We as human beings like to be cocksure and certain.

My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.

I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush.

I am not man or beast; I am bibliosexual, and a seedy bibliosexual who haunts the streets, laden with carrier bags held by blistered fingers, stooping under the weight of the rucksack that has brought on sciatica and a Dickensian demeanour.

Science is very cross-generational; you're not just aiming it at twentysomethings, or eightysomethings. Every town's got a really broad selection of people and age groups interested in science.

As much as of course that Englishness of always to be embarrassed about any sense of complement, it is nice to know that a lot of the projects that I've worked on that people do feel there has been some effect.