When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.

I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.

In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe

The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.

The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.

You can be a scientist and believe in god: the two can go hand in hand.

Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.