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'.

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.

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.

It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

Science asymptotically approaches reality.

If you've been hurt and you've grieved and you've been through the mill, it takes a long time to get over it.

Football is becoming all about money. I would like to be in a lift with Gordon Brown and say, 'Please do something about football.'

I love watching, I love getting all the science about food. That's one of my favorite things.

Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.

I guess I'm just in the flow and riding the wave.

Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don't get there by just pushing an outsider's point of view.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away.

I only get writer's block about once a day.