I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA!

He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.

There are two things you should remember when dealing with parallel universes. One, they're not really parallel, and two, they're not really universes

If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian.

The dew has fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning.