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Look at that! If you ever needed convincing that we live in the solar system, that we are on a ball of rock, orbiting around the Sun with other balls of rock, then look at that! That's the solar system coming down and grabbing you by the throat.
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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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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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Yes, [science is my God] in a sense. I'm comfortable with the unknown, that's the point of science. There are places out there, billions of places out there that we know nothing about. And the fact that we know nothing about them excites me, and I want to go out and find out about them. And that's what science is. So I think if you're not comfortable with the unknown, then it's difficult to be a scientist. So I don't need an answer; I don't need answers to everything. I want to have answers to find.
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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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Anyone who thinks the Large Hadron Collider will destroy the world is a twat.
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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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We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
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Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.
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We have written the evidence of our existence onto the surface of our planet. Our civilisation has become a beacon, that identifies our planet as home to life.
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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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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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Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.
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Born:
March 3, 1968
(age 57)
Bio:
Brian Edward Cox is an English physicist, and Advanced Fellow of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.
Known for:
Human Universe (2014)
Wonders of the Universe (2011)
The Quantum Universe (2011)
Wonders of Life (2013)
Why Does E=mc²? (2009)
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