"Technology has made us more connected, yet we have never been more isolated."

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

Success is not about the money or the fame, it's about being happy with what you're doing.

In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

The companies that will thrive are those that see climate challenge as an opportunity for reinvention.

The challenge in science is not just to find answers but to understand their deeper implications.