In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.

I'm here to chew gum and kick some ass, and I'm all out of gum.

Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet.

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

There is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so.

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in a way that is impossible to calculate for an organism that is as complicated as a human being. The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can't predict what they will do.