I do tend to lose track since the kids are out of school.

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts.

I never thought that I was very intelligent.

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.

An important task for government is to think about the future as well as to learn from the past, and the Foresight Programme, run by the Government Office for Science, helps in the development of this thinking.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

I think that some of the archetypes and works of science fiction that have pierced pop culture and stayed there are the darker ones and the dystopias.

I think the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking.