“I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazin...” — Alan Davies Quote

“I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.”

“There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.”

“I was hugely disappointed that 'Whites' was cancelled.”

“I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.”

“The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.”

“The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in.”

“In a way,” Ava said, “we hardly know ourselves. Our senses are limited, our brains are biased, and our instruments are imprecise. Even all of visible matter is just a tiny fraction of what exists. Think about dark matter and dark energy. Think about all the hypotheses that haven’t been tested or can’t be tested in our lifetimes. Our bodies of knowledge are not only incomplete. They’re changing with every approximation, with every rigorous study. The more we learn, the more mysteries arise in the universe. To me, that’s the greatest realization. Discovering how insignificantly small we are in the cosmos while knowing we’re the cosmos too. We are what we’re looking for. We believe we’re so separate from everything, but we’re all connected in this moment, changing, always changing, but never capable enough to realize the immensity of existence itself. Our mammalian brains will never comprehend our interconnection to everything. We’re waves in an ocean and we don’t truly understand how deep that ocean can go.”

“Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians.”

“For good or evil, we are a single people: the more we become conscious of this, the less difficult and long will be humanity’s progress toward justice and peace.”

“Life is like a wormhole- it is a shortcut you can always take which will make life easier but you never know if it will lead to paradise or hell.”