Brian Cox Quotes

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• We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

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  Life, Mean, Science

  "Wonders of the Universe (Messengers)". Documentary, March 27, 2011.

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• When we look out into space, we are looking into our own origins, because we are truly children of the stars.

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  Stars, Children, Space

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• The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!

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  Fun, Rights, Religion

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• Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.

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  Stars, Heart, Dying

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• Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

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  Secret, Way, Looks

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• You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Confused, Complicated

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• Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth. Follow the light and we can journey from the confines of our planet to other worlds that orbit the Sun without ever dreaming of spacecraft. To look up is to look back in time, because the ancient beams of light are messengers from the Universe's distant past.

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  Dream, Past, Journey

  Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen (2011). “Wonders of the Universe”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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• Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

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  Religion, Atheism, Different

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• Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.

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  Understanding, Wonder, Precious Things

  Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen (2013). “Wonders of Life”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

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  Musician, Explorers, Universe

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• In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.

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  Views, World, Universal Truth

  Brian Cox (2009). “Why Does E: (and why Should We Care?)”, p.5, Da Capo Press

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• One might say science is the sum total of our knowledge of the universe, the great library of the known, but the practice of science happens at the border between the known and the unknown. Standing on the shoulders of giants, we peer into the darkness with eyes opened not in fear but in wonder.

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  Eye, Practice, Darkness

  Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen (2011). “Wonders of the Universe”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

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• When you fall into a black hole you will be literally spaghettified.

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  Fall, Black, Holes

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• The story of the universe finally comes to an end. For the first time in its life, the universe will be permanent and unchanging. Entropy finally stops increasing because the cosmos cannot get any more disordered. Nothing happens, and it keeps not happening, forever. It's what's known as the heat-death of the universe. An era when the cosmos will remain vast and cold and desolate for the rest of time the arrow of time has simply ceased to exist. It's an inescapable fact of the universe written into the fundamental laws of physics, the entire cosmos will die.

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  Law, Arrows, Forever

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• Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics

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  Climate, Economics, Climate Change

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• No one gets teased for being a geek anymore- science is the new rock n roll

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  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Geek

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• As we get older, things seem less important.

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  Important, Aging, Seems

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• Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.

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  Moving, Hands, Theory

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• The aim of particle physics is to understand what everything’s made of, and how everything sticks together. By everything I mean me and you, the Earth, the Sun, the 100 billion suns in our galaxy and the 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe. Absolutely everything.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Mean

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• If people don’t have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is just a matter of opinion.

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  Thinking, People, Understanding

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• Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.

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  Important, Culture, Popular Culture

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• We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets.

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  Reality, Views, Wish

  Brian Cox, Jeffrey Robert Forshaw (2011). “The Quantum Universe: (and Why Anything That Can Happen, Does)”, p.6, Da Capo Press

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• (On the energy radiated by the Sun) It's four hundred million million million million watts. That is a million times the power consumption of the United States every year, radiated in one second, and we worked that out by using some water, a thermometer, a tin, and an umbrella. And that's why I love physics.

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  Years, Water, Sun

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• What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising.

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  Journey, Unexpected, Scientist

  BBC Radio4 "Big Bang Week" Interview, September 2008.

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• Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics. That's a dangerous slope, because the problem of course is you're not undermining just that, you're undermining the basis of rational decision-making in society.

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  Decision, Problem, Economics

  "Brian Cox: scientists giving false sense of debate on climate change" by Karl Mathiesen, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2014.

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