If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at LEAST we might find a SMALL crumb of COMFORT. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of HUMAN BEHAVIOUR.

Science was SOMETHING that REALLY caught my ATTENTION. It was something I really COULD sink my TEETH into.

Ninety-five PER CENT of my TIME is virtually WASTED.

I would say the connection between ART and science is very tenuous for me. It's just that I'm INTERESTED in both. I don't THINK that my interest in art affects the KIND of science that I do.

Part of my motivation for WRITING mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative END of things, I'm discovering that they're even more FUN to WRITE!

My BIGGEST FEAR has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love CHALLENGES. I'm not afraid to TRY ANYTHING.

If you're going to be that kind of ACTOR and go WAY out there, it's really important to TAKE care of yourself and have a SAFE place, whatever that is.

Radio astronomers STUDY radio waves from space using sensitive antennas and receivers, which give them precise information about what an astronomical object is and where it is in our NIGHT sky. And just like the signals that we send and RECEIVE here on Earth, we can convert these transmissions into SOUND using simple analog techniques.