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Before I left China, I was educated that China was the richest, happiest country in the world. So when I arrived Australia, I thought, 'Oh my God, everything is different from what I was told.' Since then, I started to think differently.

It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.

It's important to remember that Britain was the first country to industrialize, so I think there's a strong argument to say this is where my profession was founded.

When my father died, those years when he was working on the Hubble came back to me, and it seemed fitting to imagine him as having somehow merged with the large mystery that the universe represents.

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

Middle-earth is a universe I know very well.

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.

We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.

The predominant theory of the origin of the universe is the Big Bang.