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The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.