57 Quotes by Robin Ince

I don’t have any hobbies because my working job is my hobby. What I do is I spend my whole time looking through telescopes and having brain scans and buying books about various different ideas and I just sit around, that’s my life.

Homeopaths do not have a physical brain, but merely ‘skull water’ with the memory of brains.

I thought I better warn you that I am not one of those politically correct comedians, but it turns out that also I’m not really that racist, homophobic or woman hating either, so you might not notice.

My life is constant revision but it’s not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.

We very quickly forget about the wonderful things we’ve got. People lose their excitement because there’s too much. Basically we’re experiencing nothing, because everything is available to us.

As much as of course that Englishness of always to be embarrassed about any sense of complement, it is nice to know that a lot of the projects that I’ve worked on that people do feel there has been some effect.

Science is very cross-generational; you’re not just aiming it at twentysomethings, or eightysomethings. Every town’s got a really broad selection of people and age groups interested in science.

I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries – I like the hush.

You always need to find the balance in the science, but the balance to talking about evolutionary theory is not to talk about creationism, that’s not a balance, that’s misleading and it’s just wrong.