There needs to be clearer communication for the public avout how valuable it [animal testing] is

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.

Worry? That's a strange thing to say. There's no way anyone would be worried about me. Besides, we're all gonna be enemies eventually.

And I want you to find something in the hills for the vigils to protect, like a rock or a thornbush. I don't want them around here.

Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.

Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.

Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.

The soul of an individual; your soul and my soul, is that part of us that is immortal.

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.