As much as of course that Englishness of always to be embarrassed about any sense of complement, it is nice to know that a lot of the projects that I've worked on that people do feel there has been some effect.

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

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

One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.

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

I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

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.