I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone..

I've found the thing in life that I adore, which is working in science television. It's just a big adventure, really..

I've never felt scared of flight, ever. It's really weird. I don't know. They stick a gin and tonic in your hands and I just think, "Life is good!".

People think of science like somehow that's the answer, and that it's all about right answers, but science is a lens that we look at the world throug….

If you go through life and actually get to find out the thing you want to do, you're very lucky..

In my lifetime, the population of the world has doubled..

We've only had aircrafts for a hundred years, and yet look at us. So, I've become absolutely fascinated by this strange, bizarre world of airports, a….

At the heart of science is experimentation. Science doesn't care what you think. What's important is experimenting and actually working stuff out..

I've always been a bit of a dreamer. I've always loved to look and seek, and explore and find out..

When I was acting, as a hobby, I would devour popular science books and keep up-to-date about what was going on in the science community. And then, s….

I was awful at science at school, as a subject, because I didn't have the discipline. But, I was awful at music, as well, and I loved music..

Those people who are scared of science or are a bit dismissive of science tend to not really understand what science really is, which is the most bea….

Statistically, 2012 was the safest year to travel on a plane, in the history of aviation. Not one major passenger plane crashed. It's pretty amazing.….

You don't have to be musician to listen to music, and you don't have to be a filmmaker to go to the cinema, but somehow when we think of science, we ….

The thing I loved, particularly, was the mystery of science and the idea that science doesn't know all the answers, but it is a process of finding ou….

Everything that we know now will be changed in 10 years time..

I love being in America. I love America. I absolutely adore working in America. I'm at my happiest when I'm in the States..

I was very much the laymen, trying to find stuff out because I'm curious about the world..

I wasn't naturally a scientist, but I was always fascinated by how the world worked and why things were the way they were..

Yeah. Science doesn't end. That's the one thing I learned. People think of science as spitting out right answers, and that's it. It's always under re….

There is so much wonder and joy in science, about understanding how the world works and why the world is the way it is. It's not just for academics. ….