I do what I do merrily out of curiosity because I want to know how the brain works. That will get me up early in the morning and keep me going all day long.

It turns out that this part of the brain is one of the first areas that's attacked by Alzheimer's disease. So we can now use some of the basic understanding of this part of the brain to ask the simple question, 'What is going wrong with these special cells in the hippocampus at the very earliest stages?'

I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve.

If you take my equipment away from me, I might as well retire.

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

The idea of literalism in the Bible is a very new phenomenon. In many ways, it's a product of the scientific revolution.

Anyone who's promoting the exact diet that they were in previous years probably isn't keeping up with the latest science, though in general, the balance of evidence has remained remarkably consistent - centering one's diet around whole plant foods.

During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.