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The Correct Scientific Response To Something That Is Not Understood Must Always Be To Look Harder For The Explanation, Not Give Up And Assume A Supernatural Cause.

I Can Mention Many Moments That Were Unforgettable And Revelatory. But The Most Single Revelatory Three Minutes Was The First Time I Put On Scuba Gear And Dived On A Coral Reef. It's Just The Unbelievable Fact That You Can Move In Three Dimensions.

The Whole Of Science, And One Is Tempted To Think The Whole Of The Life Of Any Thinking Man, Is Trying To Come To Terms With The Relationship Between Yourself And The Natural World. Why Are You Here, And How Do You Fit In, And What's It All About.

In The Old Days... It Was A Basic, Cardinal Fact That Producers Didn't Have Opinions. When I Was Producing Natural History Programmes, I Didn't Use Them As Vehicles For My Own Opinion. They Were Factual Programmes.

Very Few Species Have Survived Unchanged. There's One Called Lingula, Which Is A Little Shellfish, A Little Brachiopod About The Size Of My Fingernail, That Has Survived For 500 Million Years, But It's Survived By Being Unobtrusive And Doing Nothing, And You Can't Accuse Human Beings Of That.