Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

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

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

I love the sad songs with their maudlin self-deprecating almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman they make a lot of sense.

My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that it's very sad.

People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.

I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was not just about love but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth of loyalty sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.

I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.