The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population..

Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do other valu….

As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far around it as others..

I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see….

Isn´t it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich?.

All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike Amer….

For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical correctitude som….

You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story becaus….

The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more..

I love everything about motels. I can't help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and fling it open..

Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everyth….

Every kid I knew had a father with a little stash of men's magazines which the father thought was secret and which the kid knew all about..

I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I still had my family, or at least ….

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old..

America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn't for me..

A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requ….

[The Royal Society] is quite simply the voice of science in Britain. It is intellectually rigorous, not afraid to be outspoken on controversial issue….

The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is seve….

It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it..

You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it..

I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and re….