Mark Oliphant

Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.

I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.

I worked with him for ten years until he died and it was the most wonderful time of my life.

Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point.

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?