“Britain, however, has ended up specialising in the ones you don't see as much of: defence aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 per cent of the world's mobile phones. And so there's a danger that because it doesn't have a British flag on it, people”

“If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.”