Brian Cox quotes from QI

Brian Cox

I can vouch for that. There are people who study this. My director of one of my documentaries, he got a PhD from Oxford studying frog communication.

Stephen Fry

He was a Professor of French.

Stephen Fry

He genuinely believed it was possible that after Christ's ascension into Heaven, the rings of Saturn are where he put his foreskin. Now, you're maybe thinking that I'm trying to mock the church, that this is nonsense. But Christ, of course, was a Jewish boy, and like all Jewish boys, at the eighth day of his birth, he was circumc –

Brian Cox

They're fifty thousand miles across!

Brian Cox

I'm going to, to play the card there.

Stephen Fry

[looking at Cox] You are right! You're a true scientist. The fact is that nobody does really know, do they.

Alan Davies

[pointed cough]

Stephen Fry

[turns to see Alan with his card] Well done!

Alan Davies

[Formally] Thank you.

Sue Perkins

All you need is an analogy that’s pertinent to you, so in my case: All relationships. And then you realize: Perfect eighteen month, and then they're dead.

Stephen Fry

The second law of sexual dynamics.

Sue Perkins

Yeah, according to me, that's how I extrapolate.

Brian Cox

To make that statistically significant though, you'd have to have an awful lot of relationships.

Sue Perkins

Oh, I do.

Ross Noble

Of all these [Saturn's] moons, which one is most likely to be the home to Ewoks?

Brian Cox

Would be, um, Titan.

Ross Noble

Titan?

Brian Cox

It's got a thicker atmosphere than the Earth, so you'd need to be furry.

Brian Cox

What are the rules of sodomy?

Stephen Fry

It's...erm...um...eye-wateringly complex.