At Age 11 In 1960,

I Am Still A Keen Mountain Walker And An Enthusiastic Glider Pilot.

It Was During My Time At Secondary School That I Abandoned Religion.

Like Many Students, I Found The Drudgery Of Real Experiments And The Slowness Of Progress A Complete Shock, And At My Low Points I Contemplated Other Alternative Careers Including Study Of The Philosophy Or Sociology Of Science.

Ever Since Sir Isaac Newton's Times, Scientists Have Worked In The Same Sort Of Way: They Show A Great Respect For Experiment And Observation, They Don't Cherry Pick Data, They Take A Skeptical Approach To What They Do. And Then Scientists Work Together To Get A Consensus As To What Should Be Believed And That Generates Very Reliable Knowledge And That Reliable Knowledge Drives Innovation

I Was By Far The Youngest Of The Family, And At Times It Was Like Being An Only Child.