Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.

India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.

My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well.

If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.

I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.

The truth is, I feel sorry for the Old Etonians. Everybody should be judged on his or her own merits. Assuming that toffs are 'out of touch' is more modern and fashionable than assuming they have a 'natural fitness for government,' but it's no fairer.

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.