Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.

This is a stunning surprise, rather like finding out that the key to your house also works in the ignition of your car,

This is a stunning surprise, rather like finding out that the key to your house also works in the ignition of your car.

Some of [the lenders] may not be resident in Britain but there's nothing wrong with that.

I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents.

For delightfully quirky descriptions of bizarre neurological syndromes that teach us a lot about how the brain works, there is no match for Oliver Sacks.