There is no space without aether, and no aether which does not occupy space.

There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, It appears That in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.

Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.

The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us.

You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

VR and AR will eventually converge, and smart glasses will take over our digital interactions.

You may only be a small musical note in the realms of life, but together with others you make a symphony.

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

Even if lives did hang in the balance, it would depend on whose they were.

My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was hired to assassinate De Gaulle….

In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times.

Responsible, who wants to be responsible? Whenever something bad happens, it's always, who's responsible for this?

What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

... but I'm always being invaded by others' souls so I can't see my own soul very well.