Without evidence, anything goes. Think about it. Common sense says the sun goes round the Earth. Who agrees with me?

Scientific discoveries matter much more when they're communicated simply and well - if you can't explain your work to the man in the pub, what's the point?

We live in a world economically, socially, and culturally dependent on science not only functioning well, but being wisely applied.

Saying that we should stop nanoscience is tantamount to saying we should stop science.

Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.

I'm from Norway, and when kids were reading comics, I was reading Icelandic and Norwegian sagas about the Vikings. The glorification of violence, their mentality, and their way of living - that was part of my own education growing up.

Showing women being scientists on television can have a great impact on who actually goes into science as a profession.

Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.