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.

I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.

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.

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.

Do you always ask me the same questions you ask him?""It depends on whether or not I get an answer.

We're not mad. We're inhabited

I'm used to desperate, buddy. Desperate's my factory default. But thanks anyway.

God has accepted your repentance. He gives his forgiveness freely.

The best part is getting to the top 'cause the pain's all over.

True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.

Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion.

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

The only similarity between the car and the human body is that if something is seriously wrong with the design of the former you can send it back to its maker.

Nearly every moment of every day we have the opportunity to give something to someone else.