I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.

Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.

Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

There is so much to groak; So little to groak from.

A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.

Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn't disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled and confused, but it never really gets lost. It's just converted into a different form.