With professionals she was professional: she concentrated on looking unimpressed.

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

I submit that anyone who is trying to explain one thing in terms of something else has nothing important to say.

We live under the tyranny of various professional groups, and all the 'influence' we could bring to bear on the running of schools, trains or power stations isn't sufficient to move a feather.

There are millions of people who think that having heard about something is the same as knowing it, and their notion of culture is a mixture of elegant lifestyle and big names.

Watching him, she forgot to answer.