Most Of What We See In The

I Grew Up In England And We Spent Most Of The Time On Latin And Greek And Very Little On Science, And I Think That Was Good Because It Meant We Didn't Get Turned Off. It Was... Science Was Something We Did For Fun And Not Because We Had To.

When World War Ii Came Along, Which Was When I Was A Teenager, We All Expected We Would Have Anthrax Bombs And This Kind Of Stuff. We Thought It Would Be A Biological War. Fortunately It Wasn't And, But It's Because The Danger Is Still There And By Some Miracle We Escaped All That, So You Never Can Tell What It Going To Happen, But Biology Certainly Could Be Even Worse Than Physics And Chemistry.

Climate Change Is Part Of The Normal Order Of Things, And We Know It Was Happening Before Humans Came.

A Good Scientist Is A Person With Original Ideas. A Good Engineer Is A Person Who Makes A Design That Works With As Few Original Ideas As Possible. There Are No Prima Donnas In Engineering.

If You Go To London Now, Not Everything Is Beautiful, But It's Amazingly Better Than It Was. And The Thames Is Certainly A Lot Better: There Are Fish In The Thames.