I don't remember ever deciding to become a performer. I just always was. I began performing by mimicking the performers on the new television that first took the attention away from me as the baby of the household. I continued performing to put a smile on my grandmother's face and always considered her when accepting or declining roles.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

Unfortunately Climate Science has become Political Science. It is tragic that some perhaps well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomena which is statistically questionable at best.

What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you or it becomes this incredible potion.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.

But the imposition of morality onto science - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history literature science anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.

Science fiction has its own history its own legacy of what's been done what's been superseded what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish as well as comically arrogant to ignore all this to fail to do the most basic research.