Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost.

In my day, the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available.

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

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

99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.

I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.

As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far around it as others.