It never really occurred to me to believe in God.

I would love to see a giant squid. Very few people have seen them. And only about half a dozen people have seen one alive.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go 'aaah'. That's what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn't surprising, I don't think.

I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.

Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution