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

Life, to me personally, I believe it is a finite thing, my consciousness, and I want to use it as much as possible.

We very quickly forget about the wonderful things we've got. People lose their excitement because there's too much. Basically we're experiencing nothing, because everything is available to us.

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.

I want to create shows which are interesting. I hope that some people are excited by some of the ideas.

If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you'd get.

I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush.