I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.
The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.
I had fun coming every day and playing in front of a packed house - it was exciting.
Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.
Dalton Russell: [Fires pistol] Everybody get down on the fucking floor now!
Dog: [to Carl and Russell after Muntz accepts them] I like you temporarily!
It's really important to have balance, spend some time in nature, go to a few parties, enjoy my friends and really chill out.
By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.
I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.
Unfortunately, things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.
I don't like science because I don't think it makes sense to put a definition on everything. It's a lot more exciting to think of things as mysterious.
Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.
I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.
I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
When I got there, all the pasta and science stuff hadn't quite caught on in England - things that were perfectly acceptable then wouldn't be tolerated now.
I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.
Someone like Russell Crowe is questioned for his passion for music, and whatever he does, music is just in his heart and soul. All he wants to do is music.
