When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.

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.

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

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.

You can only become the observer of life, if you can perceive the world with the mind and not with the sensory organs.

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men

I needed to protect her from this - and from herself.

Chances don't approach you, it's you who approach chances.

They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.

One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.

You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.

Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.

Were there certain things that I didn't feel were dignified enough to make it into the movie? Yeah.

In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat.