Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.

Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.

Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.

I do worry about the fact that science is becoming a slower process as society is becoming less patient.