...if your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale’s head for an afternoon.

The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, "Are we being good ancestors?

Time travelers tend, as a group, to have a lot of hobbies.

That's the way progress works: the more we build up these vast repertoires of scientific and technological understanding, the more we conceal them.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...

If God wills that I die, then I die. No power on earth can change that.

Stay up... 'till you come up... when you come up stay up!

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census', and people fall asleep.

I think both of us [ with Steve Oram], once we decided to do comedy, knew that we would have to come to London to do that.

When I look at what Donald trump have proposed, you have what is called now the Trump loophole, because it would so advantage you and the business you do.

What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too nervous, too high strung to sit around. It's not my thing; I can't deal with it!

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.