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

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.

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.

Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken.

You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

I absolutely love London; it is one of my favourite cities in the world.

All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.

You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.

I don't worry about things I can't control.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you get out, will you be any better off?" - Quellcrist Falconer

Always focus on your effort, instead of the results of that effort.