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I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.

Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

The 'science' in 'science fiction' isn't just physics and engineering. It can also be linguistics, anthropology, and psychology.

Science is international: the best scientists can come from anywhere; they can come from next door, or they can come from a small village in a country anywhere in the world - we need to make it easier.

Britain punches way above its weight in science, and I think we need to continue to do that, and anything that makes it easier to bring scientists in will be very welcome.