I hate personal competition, and so each time in my career I came in a field where it was highly competitive, I gave up.

A scientific prize is an ambiguous thing: it highlights an individual when we should highlight a collective effort, but I'm not alone.

The trouble with vitreous water is that vitrification should be impossible.

In our group, it was a necessary requirement that one has to be able to collaborate.

I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising.

I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.