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“First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it.”
“The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop”
“For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.”
“The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind the venetian blinds and unshaven, but ruggedly handso...”
“The world was different before the war,' he said. 'We didn't have this instantaneous access to information that your generation has. The world was a bigger, more mysterious place - we still dreamed...”