I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel its leaving us more and more isolated. – Mike Rutherford
Id say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And theyre meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about. – Karl Pilkington
It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family. – George Porter