It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms.

Because time moves more slowly in Kid World ... it goes on for decades ... It is adult life that is over in a twinkling.

...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.

Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.

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.

Isn´t it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich?