My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.

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.

I had fallen in love with a perfect lie.

What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.

That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume.

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.

Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence.

My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else.

An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man from Africa.

No one ever erected a statue of a critic.

Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them.

Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.