The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.

No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

I wish there would be more movies about scientists.

[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.