Derek Abbott

"The fact that there simply is 5,000 times more sun power than our consumption needs makes me very optimistic. It's a fantastic resource. We have the ingenuity to send man to the moon, so we definitive…"

"Quantum Aspects of Life"

"My starting point is as an academic who always thought nuclear was the answer, but who then looked at the figures and came to an inescapable conclusion that solar-hydrogen is the long-term future. I d…"

"My advice to prospective PhD students is to follow your passion and pick a topic that interests you — don't do a PhD topic that you hate, but you think will be lucrative. Because the big picture is th…"

"My advice to all students is to question everything! You never know where a "silly question" may lead you."

"One can justify solar-hydrogen simply on grounds of economic resource viability without any green agenda."

"2004 Tall Poppy Award citation"

"Mathematics genealogy project: Abbott's scientific genealogy"