There isnt a single windmill owner in Holland who doesnt have a second job, for when there is no wind.

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

You've only got three choices in life: Give up, give in, or give it all you've got.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

To me the acid test was always the crew, and if the crew liked you, you're OK.

The essence of all religions is love, compassion, and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. The clear proof of a person's love of God is if that person genuinely shows love to fellow human beings.

All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.

I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent to children.

I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!

We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.

I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?