I'm glad the universe is pointless. It means if I get to the end of my life, the universe can't turn to me and go, 'What have you been doing, you idiot? That's not the point!

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

You always need to find the balance in the science, but the balance to talking about evolutionary theory is not to talk about creationism, that's not a balance, that's misleading and it's just wrong.

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.

Homeopaths do not have a physical brain, but merely 'skull water' with the memory of brains.

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.