Wherever you are on Earth, there is more life present than in the rest of the known universe.

To be paid, to be employed to be an enthusiast and be excited about existence is fantastic.

They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.

I don't have any hobbies because my working job is my hobby. What I do is I spend my whole time looking through telescopes and having brain scans and buying books about various different ideas and I just sit around, that's my life.

My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.

Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.

The worst, the most difficult thing I think is that the more you become intrigued by science and the information is out there, the more you are aware of the paucity of your own knowledge.