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We as human beings like to be cocksure and certain.
Robin Ince / Comedian
Certain
Human Beings
Humans
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Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.
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Exciting
World
Rationally
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I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush.
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Hush
Library
Percentages
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I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.
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Physicist
Theory
Vain
Biologists
Evolutionary
Particle
Physicists
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My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.
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Firsts
Life Is
Revision
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To be paid, to be employed to be an enthusiast and be excited about existence is fantastic.
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Excited
Existence
Fantastic
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Homeopaths do not have a physical brain, but merely 'skull water' with the memory of brains.
Robin Ince / Comedian
Memories
Skulls
Water
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Wherever you are on Earth, there is more life present than in the rest of the known universe.
Robin Ince / Comedian
Earth
Known
Wherever You Are
Wherever
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Not since Jimmy Carr have I seen a cold computer programme on stage generate so much laughter.
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Cold
Computer
Laughter
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They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.
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Technology
Monkeys
Typewriters
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I want to create shows which are interesting. I hope that some people are excited by some of the ideas.
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Ideas
Interesting
People
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Life, to me personally, I believe it is a finite thing, my consciousness, and I want to use it as much as possible.
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Believe
Use
Want
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If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you'd get.
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Machines
Matter
Royal
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There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most of the best comedy goes beyond the rules.
Robin Ince / Comedian
Comedy
Patterns
Thinking
Writing
Rules
Beyond
Certainly
Followed
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I'm glad the universe is pointless. It means if I get to the end of my life, the universe can't turn to me and go, 'What have you been doing, you idiot? That's not the point!
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Inspirational
Motivational
Atheist
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My wife could turn to me and she may say, 'Why do you love me?' And I can with all honesty look her in the eye and say, 'Because our pheromones matched our olfactory receptors.'
Robin Ince / Comedian
Valentine
Honesty
Inspiration
Motivation
Valentines Day
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I have a problem with telling jokes about physics. Quite often the audience have no idea what you are talking about and, to be honest, I don't know what I'm talking about either.
Robin Ince / Comedian
Audience
Honest
No Idea
Physics
Problem
Talking
Quite
Either
Telling
To Be Honest
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The worst, the most difficult thing I think is that the more you become intrigued by science and the information is out there, the more you are aware of the paucity of your own knowledge.
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Difficult
Information
Thinking
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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.
Robin Ince / Comedian
Available
Excitement
People
Too Much
Wonderful Things
Lose People Nothing
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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.
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Age
Groups
People
Selection
Aiming
Broad
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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
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Comedian
Hate
Racist
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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.
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Balance
Needs
Talking
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I have a very vibrant imposter syndrome that goes on throughout most of my life, but nothing more than when someone has to put a hat on me or some kind of sash and go, 'We're giving you this certificate.'
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Giving
Goes On
Hats
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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.
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Nice
People
Projects
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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.
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Jobs
Book
Ideas
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The main battle is to make people realise that doubt is important. Doubt is good. The 'don't know' answer sometimes is the box you should tick, and it's about not being scared about that fact. Even the greatest minds don't know everything.
Robin Ince / Comedian
Battle
Being Scared
Doubt
Scared
Tick
Good Important People
Box
Main
Minds
Realise
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I am not man or beast; I am bibliosexual, and a seedy bibliosexual who haunts the streets, laden with carrier bags held by blistered fingers, stooping under the weight of the rucksack that has brought on sciatica and a Dickensian demeanour.
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Men
Bags
Weight
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One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.
Robin Ince / Comedian
Religion
Coping
Coping Mechanisms
Ideas
Knowing
Mysticism
Spinning
Universe
Die
Avoid
Ball
Be Happy
Brief
Explore
Mechanisms
Rationally
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If you really want space on public transport you should carry some pornography from the 1970s and a pair of children's safety scissors, then delicately cut out all the eyes of the glamour models whilst whistling. Every now and again mutter, 'Why are women more beautiful when they are eyeless?' You will be able to stretch out, though this can have ramifications such as ending up on a police list or being run out of town.
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Running
Beautiful
Children
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