All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.

Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms.

The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose

Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.

Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.

I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see what kind of shampoo they've left me.

I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.