If you go through life and actually get to find out the thing you want to do, you're very lucky.

There is so much wonder and joy in science, about understanding how the world works and why the world is the way it is. It's not just for academics. It is a thing that's available to everyone.

I've never felt scared of flight, ever. It's really weird. I don't know. They stick a gin and tonic in your hands and I just think, "Life is good!"

People think of science like somehow that's the answer, and that it's all about right answers, but science is a lens that we look at the world through.

At the heart of science is experimentation. Science doesn't care what you think. What's important is experimenting and actually working stuff out.

I've always been a bit of a dreamer. I've always loved to look and seek, and explore and find out.

I've found the thing in life that I adore, which is working in science television. It's just a big adventure, really.

In my lifetime, the population of the world has doubled.

We've only had aircrafts for a hundred years, and yet look at us. So, I've become absolutely fascinated by this strange, bizarre world of airports, air travel and transportation. It's interesting.

I'd missed science and what it was all about because I was too busy trying to think of other things, when I was at school. I was too busy trying to be James Dean.

I love being in America. I love America. I absolutely adore working in America. I'm at my happiest when I'm in the States.

I believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens.

You're not learning anything unless you're having the difficult conversations.

In every picture there should be shade as well as light.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.

I am going to turn over a new life and am going to be a very good girl and be obedient to Isa Keith, here there is plenty of gooseberries which makes my teeth watter.

You deal. You survive. You grow up and you build a career. And you remember these big/little hardships. They make you human.

Tears are the body's raindrops of emotion.

I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.

The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.