I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.

It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get repeated publicity.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.

A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.

My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.

When one remains ‘sincere’, no type of fear will come to him in the worldly life (sansar) and it will lead him to moksha (ultimate liberation)!

Good wombs have borne bad sons."-- (Miranda, I:2)

It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls

I love to tease men with my legs.

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

I have olive skin, so if I'm in the sun for even 15 minutes, I turn brown.

Every sunny morning is a great fountain; we quaff 'sweet hope' from it.

We are ruled by quotations.

Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum.