Read moreScience is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.
Read moreI can’t disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses – the wheelchair gives me away.
Read moreI want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.
Read moreMy father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.
Read moreI first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter’s school fees.
Read moreSomeone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.