Alice Roberts

Look what consumer power has done with organic food; we can do the same with clothes.

— Alice Roberts

I was a goth in my student days. I dyed my hair black, but it came out grey, with a blue scalp.…

— Alice Roberts

I usually turn over when ads appear on television. But - very rarely - I am gripped by a particularly beautiful one,…

— Alice Roberts

Evolutionary biologists have long pondered the phenomenon of the changing colours of autumn leaves. It's possible that the red pigments are manufactured…

— Alice Roberts

While planting woodlands along rivers has been shown to work in small areas, it has been unclear whether it would be effective…

— Alice Roberts

My childhood hero was David Attenborough. He opened my eyes to the wonder of the natural world. In fact, he's still my…

— Alice Roberts

Around 4000BC, the Mesolithic, hunter-gatherer way of life here gave way to a more settled, farming existence. Those Neolithic people built wooden…

— Alice Roberts

And when you take something like the changing colour of autumn leaves and start to ask why, you're starting off on an…

— Alice Roberts

I suppose the thing I'm quite pleased about is that I am, I would hope, a role model for girls and younger…

— Alice Roberts

Looking in detail at human anatomy, I'm always left with two practically irreconcilable thoughts: our bodies are wonderful, intricate masterpieces; and then…

— Alice Roberts

Science offers us the possibility of understanding natural rhythms and events that must have seemed like the work of angry and unpredictable…

— Alice Roberts

Did people's attitudes towards me change after I appeared on TV? Yeah, definitely. During my career I've had some flak - particularly…

— Alice Roberts

I've wanted to write a book on embryology, that extraordinary journey where you start off as a single cell and end up…

— Alice Roberts

If a group of humans began to run regularly, perhaps allowing them to hunt or scavenge more effectively, anatomical changes would follow,…

— Alice Roberts

As well as tasting fantastic, blackberries are good for you. Anthocyanin isn't just a pigment, it's a flavonoid, a heroic antioxidant! The…

— Alice Roberts

It's tempting to look back into history with rose-tinted glasses. Most people in the Stone Age didn't live anywhere near as long…

— Alice Roberts

I love Roger Deakin's writing, and enjoyed making a programme about wild swimming for BBC4, inspired by his book about his own…

— Alice Roberts

I have family connections with Salisbury through my godmother. Her sister lived there, so I have very fond memories of visiting the…

— Alice Roberts

I was effectively unemployed after my son was born. I resigned from Bristol because I wasn't happy with the way my career…

— Alice Roberts

Embryology reveals surprising similarities between early embryos of seemingly quite different animals. And it also shows that some structures that may look…

— Alice Roberts

Pagan Romans started their midwinter celebrations with the feast of Saturnalia on 17 December, ending them with a new year festival, the…

— Alice Roberts

Our long, flexible lumbar spines are great in many ways - they help us to run efficiently, for instance. But they have…

— Alice Roberts

I love prehistory - particularly the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. These were times when our ancestors made a revolutionary change from…

— Alice Roberts

We have plenty of young women coming into biology and medicine, but we don't have enough coming into physics and engineering. It's…

— Alice Roberts

We have been talking about public engagement for a decade. For me it is about recognising that the mission of science has…

— Alice Roberts

We're not the only mammals who are partial to blackberries, far from it. Foxes and badgers will also gobble them up, helping…

— Alice Roberts

We need to get across the excitement and creativity of science. That it isn't just a list of facts that have already…

— Alice Roberts

I was extremely lucky as I was in one of the last generations of British students who went to university and had…

— Alice Roberts

Always attempting to tame and subjugate nature is not the solution. But the latest science is helping us to map out a…

— Alice Roberts

When I started doing television, I was very aware my clothes would be obvious and it was a great opportunity to promote…

— Alice Roberts

One way I try to manage it is by not having a princess party for my daughter and trying to do things…

— Alice Roberts

Choosing my career was always based on job satisfaction rather than financial security. I wanted to get a job in science; I…

— Alice Roberts

I've always loved the seaside and I used to be a fairly keen surfer, but it's a solitary activity so when my…

— Alice Roberts

The scientific method is about trying to remove our own bias and subjectivity, and be as objective as possible. But then you…

— Alice Roberts

I grew up in the Seventies; my dad is an aeronautical engineer and my mum was an English and arts teacher and…

— Alice Roberts

It is so stimulating for young children to hear someone who does science talking about it. It can be so exciting and…

— Alice Roberts

Eighteen years later, pregnant with my first child, I started eating fish. Oily fish in particular contains plenty of long-chain omega-3 fatty…

— Alice Roberts

Lunch on the road is usually the same as breakfast and tea in remote places - packet meals. I'm veggie and generally…

— Alice Roberts

I gave up meat when I was 18, and it was an ethical decision. I loved the taste, and went on holiday…

— Alice Roberts

I love Christmas. At this very special time of year, when the sun appears only fleetingly to those of us living in…

— Alice Roberts