I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventua….

It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I th….

If it had been anything else, we would have said, 'People don't want us to do it. Forget it. Let's just leave it alone.' But this is not in that cate….

Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought….

Now, of course, cold fusion is the daddy of them all in a way, in terms of value, so I think that viewed in a social way, from the point of social co….

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contrib….

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it..

I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work..

It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly w….

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding..

You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really..

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid..

It doesn't matter whether you can or cannot achieve high temperature superconductivity or fuel cells, they will always be on the list because if you ….

Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first tim….

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else..

I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely..

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been..