An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician..

At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made with us k….

Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics.

If people don’t have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is jus….

Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder..

You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful..

Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star..

The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry. In d….

The aim of particle physics is to understand what everything’s made of, and how everything sticks together. By everything I mean me and you, the Eart….

For me, Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' defines New York. Both New York and Manhattan Island should be in black in white! I always hear the soundtrack of G….

Look at that! If you ever needed convincing that we live in the solar system, that we are on a ball of rock, orbiting around the Sun with other balls….

We have written the evidence of our existence onto the surface of our planet. Our civilisation has become a beacon, that identifies our planet as hom….

(On the energy radiated by the Sun) It's four hundred million million million million watts. That is a million times the power consumption of the Uni….

No one gets teased for being a geek anymore- science is the new rock n roll.

Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth.….