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

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.

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.

I would send back a statement: ‘None.’

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 can only imagine that future generations will consider us to have been barbaric for our intolerance of differences.

Digital fit” should be first defined as “mind fit, ” and then following with attitude fit and behavior fit.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

I'm the leader of the pack, which makes me such a lucky Jack, for openers, here's a pair of cuties, here's my darling dealing beauties.

It is always darkest before the dawn.

I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.

No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.

I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.

I will never fully understand; that is the nature of such creatures. Or is this Inner Truth now, this that is happening to me? I will wait. I will see. Which it is. Perhaps it is both.

Boy, you better pray that I bleed real soon.