"At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science"

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more"

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book"

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting"

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow"

"Science does not know its debt to imagination"

"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam"

"If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic"

"The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone"

"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone"