“My younger brother ended up the British chess champion 10 times, a rec...” — Roger Penrose Quote

My younger brother ended up the British chess champion 10 times, a record.

There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there by chance.

I used to make polyhedra with my father. There were no clear lines between games and toys for children and his professional work.

And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.

Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.

In British sitcoms, you can get five minutes of nothing before the story starts.

I know they call it the British Invasion, but musically, I call it the British Infusion.

It has been my privilege to serve as Home Secretary and deliver on what the British people have sent us to Westminster to do.

The British Government very naturally would like to see in India the form of democratic constitutions it knows best and thinks best, under which the Government of the country is entrusted to one or other political party in accordance with the turn of elections.

One of the things I'm so determined to preserve and restore is the fact that you can be the kid who was born in Dinsdale and find yourself working for the British government in the U.K., to being prime minister.