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Top 30 Robin Ince Quotes (2025 Update)

Robin Ince Quote: “We as human beings like to be cocksure and certain.”

1. “We as human beings like to be cocksure and certain.”

Robin Ince Quote: “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.’”

2. “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.’”

Robin Ince Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

Robin Ince Quote: “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.’”

4. “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 Quote: “Some people may harrumph and grumble, ‘Generation Snowflake!’, but what is the harm in trying to make an individual’s life less stressful through a single simple action?”

5. “Some people may harrumph and grumble, ‘Generation Snowflake!’, but what is the harm in trying to make an individual’s life less stressful through a single simple action?”

Robin Ince Quote: “Homeopaths do not have a physical brain, but merely ‘skull water’ with the memory of brains.”

6. “Homeopaths do not have a physical brain, but merely ‘skull water’ with the memory of brains.”

Robin Ince Quote: “My life is constant revision but it’s not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.”

7. “My life is constant revision but it’s not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.”

Robin Ince Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

Robin Ince Quote: “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.”

9. “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 Quote: “We want to be just wonky enough to be interesting, but not so wonky that our life is unbearable or painful.”

10. “We want to be just wonky enough to be interesting, but not so wonky that our life is unbearable or painful.”

Robin Ince Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

Robin Ince Quote: “They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.”

12. “They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.”

Robin Ince Quote: “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.”

13. “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 Quote: “I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.”

14. “I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.”

Robin Ince Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

Robin Ince Quote: “Not since Jimmy Carr have I seen a cold computer programme on stage generate so much laughter.”

16. “Not since Jimmy Carr have I seen a cold computer programme on stage generate so much laughter.”

Robin Ince Quote: “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.”

17. “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 Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

Robin Ince Quote: “Wherever you are on Earth, there is more life present than in the rest of the known universe.”

19. “Wherever you are on Earth, there is more life present than in the rest of the known universe.”

Robin Ince Quote: “Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.”

20. “Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.”

Robin Ince Quote: “I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries – I like the hush.”

21. “I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries – I like the hush.”

Robin Ince Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

Robin Ince Quote: “Life, to me personally, I believe it is a finite thing, my consciousness, and I want to use it as much as possible.”

23. “Life, to me personally, I believe it is a finite thing, my consciousness, and I want to use it as much as possible.”

Robin Ince Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

Robin Ince Quote: “If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you’d get.”

25. “If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you’d get.”

Robin Ince Quote: “I want to create shows which are interesting. I hope that some people are excited by some of the ideas.”

26. “I want to create shows which are interesting. I hope that some people are excited by some of the ideas.”

Robin Ince Quote: “To be paid, to be employed to be an enthusiast and be excited about existence is fantastic.”

27. “To be paid, to be employed to be an enthusiast and be excited about existence is fantastic.”

Robin Ince Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

Robin Ince Quote: “It is easy to fall into the trap of feeling that it is only through being miserable that you can be deep and meaningful.”

29. “It is easy to fall into the trap of feeling that it is only through being miserable that you can be deep and meaningful.”

Robin Ince Quote: “This is one of the wonders of books: the delight of being a species that can chronicle and preserve. I pick up a book from a shelf, and someone who is no more than ash or bone can still change me.”

30. “This is one of the wonders of books: the delight of being a species that can chronicle and preserve. I pick up a book from a shelf, and someone who is no more than ash or bone can still change me.”

Robin Ince Quote: “I like charity bookshops, because I can delude myself into believing that I am committing an altruistic act by purchasing too many books. I am not satisfying my consumer lust – I am digging a well in Uganda.”

31. “I like charity bookshops, because I can delude myself into believing that I am committing an altruistic act by purchasing too many books. I am not satisfying my consumer lust – I am digging a well in Uganda.”

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