The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial qual…

- Johnny Ball

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be t…

- Johnny Ball

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

- Johnny Ball

That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you ge…

- Johnny Ball

There isnt a single windmill owner in Holland who doesnt have a second job, for when there is no wind.

- Johnny Ball

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to empha…

- Johnny Ball