9 Quotes by Dara Ó Briain

Science knows it doesn’t know everything, otherwise it would stop.

Herbal medicine’s been around for thousands of years! Indeed it has. And then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became medicine. And the rest of it’s just a nice bowl of soup and some pot pourri.

Nostalgia is heroin for old people.

Science knows it doesn’t know everything; otherwise, it’d stop. But just because science doesn’t know everything doesn’t mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.

I think the English are bipolar. ‘We’re the greatest, no we’re terrible’ – that’s a constant English struggle. Crime is down, there’s little poverty – yet it’s always the worst time to have lived here.

My iPod holds 3,000 albums. I own, like, 90 albums. My iPod sits at home, sullen, frustrated, and underused, like a wife who gave up her career and the kids turned out to be shite.

If we were truly created by God, why do we occasionally bite the insides of our mouths?

I’m an appalling cook. I can just about create a glass of orange juice and a ham-and-cheese sandwich.

On getting mugged: I carry around months and months of receipts. I need a mugger who can file my VAT returns.