This summer I have discovered something totally useless.

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.

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.

She didn't know if it was God. She wasn't really sure what to call it. She just knew she believe in unconditional love. And that was really all that mattered.

Holiness on earth is a spiritual fantasy.

Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.

Anybody who speeds thinks they can outsmart the cops.

If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.

I used to have six left feet. Now I only have one and a half left feet.

You get ideas across better through listening and the pat-on-the-back method than you do with a kick on the pants.

If you descend into somebody else's private hell and stand there with them, it ceases to be hell.

I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.

Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, "1, 2, 3, 4."