I've never been the sort of firebrand that I've been made out to be. I'm actually quite a mild person.

It doesn't hurt my feeling when I get vilified by fundamentalist religious people. I've actually made comedy out of it. I've made light of that.

There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say to 140 characters, and it's something that I quite enjoy attempting to do.

Nico Tinbergen was my doctoral supervisor, and he was a benign, avuncular sort of influence; everybody loved him.

Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear.

Evolution never looks to the future.