Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.

Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history.

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

[The Royal Society] is quite simply the voice of science in Britain. It is intellectually rigorous, not afraid to be outspoken on controversial issues such as climate change, but it is not aggressively secular either, insisting on a single view of the world. In fact, there are plenty of eminent scientists - Robert Winston, for instance - who are also men of faith.

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.

Cheapness is a great virtue.

There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo.