Being an environmentalist isn't all about doom and gloom.
By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.
Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.
I definitely think there could be stricter teen driving laws.
I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.
I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.
A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.
At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.
If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.
For exercise, I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy, Oscar.
Geothermal can be a huge source of energy very quickly.
Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.
I grew up watching a lot of stuff, like 'Teen Titans.'
I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.
I think there are worse things for a teen to be enraptured with than 'Twilight.'
Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.
Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.
I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.
This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.
