I would send back a statement: ‘None.’

I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.

Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.

There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.

This summer I have discovered something totally useless.

Fundamentalism is another problem. I mean, Dawkins in a way is almost a fundamentalist himself, of another kind.

When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.

If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.

I was already, I think, at the age of 18, showing signs of being incompetent in the lab.

I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.

I can't say with certitude.

Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes

This company looks cheap, that company looks cheap, but the overall economy could completely screw it up. The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.

If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.

I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.

See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

My experience indicates that most people who've accumulated a great deal of wealth haven't had that as their goal at all. Wealth is only a by-product, not the original motivation.

We're reborn every second, every moment.