Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.

Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?

Life is not all high emotion. Some of the most interesting things are when its not highly emotional: little details of relationships and body language.

There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.

The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.

To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that.

All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life