(GASPS)
What are the things that we don't know about?
OK, apart from 96% of the universe.
We don't know what consciousness is. In science it's called "the hard problem".
Did you know they don't understand gravity?
It's the least understood of the four fundamental forces.
They know more about what goes on inside an atom than they do about gravity.
Explosions. Nobody really understands what goes on in an explosion.
I've spent 40 years in comedy.
I have no idea why things are funny. I haven't the faintest notion.
Ignorance is what drives science. You wouldn't think it.
If you see scientists talking, people like Dawkins are very defensive.
Scientists in private are all going, "Why is that, then?"
"That's a thing we don't know about." That's what makes science happen.
It's actually very difficult to think of a new "why?", to think of a new question.
Any fool can find answers.
People who ask new questions, they're the geniuses.
Ignorance is at the heart of any kind of discovery.
You don't need to know very much.
It's a question of working out which are the important things.
It's a fascinating thing to me that people get really, really cross
about things they can't possibly know or prove,
such as the existence of God or the beginning of the universe,
but let things that are really important,
like how to get on with your own children, pass.
Here's a thing about intelligence. Is intelligence a good thing?
Stalin was an incredibly intelligent guy, a really smart bloke.
Look what he did with it. It's what you
Always. In any circumstance, kindness is better than almost anything.
We all know what is right, actually.
We pretend to ourselves we don't
because we're disabled by our needs and selfishness.
If you do what you know to be right, it's extraordinarily powerful.
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