Still, I never really mind bad service in a restaurant. It makes me feel better about not leaving a tip..

Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it is science that i….

To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual pleasure as possible ….

I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries..

Black bears rarely attack. But here's the thing. Sometimes they do. All bears are agile, cunning and immensely strong, and they are always hungry. If….

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know..

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness..

Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don't seem to wear shorts. American men seem to be comf….

Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths histo….

It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that..

It was an odd situation. For a century and a half, men got rid of their own hair, which was perfectly comfortable, and instead covered their heads wi….

Traveling is more fun - hell, life is more fun - if you can treat it as a series of impulses..

I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why..

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not..

Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious..

... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can..

Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but somehow when you get out there it's really s….

It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete highway painful to behol….

My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devis….

So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we h….

Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms..