What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!

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

You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.

It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me.

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.