There are many ways of knocking electrons out of atoms. The simplest is to rub two surfaces together.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.

In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth.

There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.

Maybe [aliens] have been in our lives a lot longer than we want to admit. People have always seen strange things—elves and fairies—and now we don't. Now we see them, right?

The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.

Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.

No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.

I don't know nothing about nothing.

Allo, darlin’. Oi’m so glad to see it’s love at first sight for you, too.

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

A sound body keeps a sound mind.

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand.