Robert Winston Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.”

“However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent.”

“I like travelling on my own. It means I'm completely free to think about what's around me.”

“I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.”

“My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.”

“You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.”

“Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.”

“Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn't go through the usual three phases of matter, from solid to liquid to gas, but it goes straight from solid to gas. The volume of the gas is much greater than the volume of the solid. When a solid turns into a gas, we say it sublimes. The process is sublimation.”

“However you define God, and whether you believe in God or not, the world we live in has been shaped by the universal human conviction that there is more to life than life itself; that there is a 'god' shaped hole at the centre of our universe.”

“I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.”