It's a wonderful human-interest story, because here the predictor did not back down, and the measurer did not back down. This went on for decades, and in the end it was proved that they were both right.

It's sobering. It breeds humility.

If someone should be able to detect the neutrinos from the Big Bang, there's probably an airline trip to Stockholm waiting for that person.

We don't have the death penalty for adultery.

The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest; and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.