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… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
“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.” — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
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. — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
I didn't have this feeling that I should be a leading actor in the cinema. And I wouldn't want the responsibility of the opening… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
I was living in London and I thought, 'There's nothing here for me anymore.' I don't want to become this actor who's going to… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I've had lots of difficult times when I was younger, but that was all tied… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place. — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
“Later, we shall see that if it were possible to exceed the speed of light, we could construct time machines capable of transporting us backward through history to any point in the past. We could imagine journeying back to a time before we were born and, by accident or design, preventing our parents from ever meeting. This makes for excellent… — Brian Cox Copy Share
I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming. — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
“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… — Brian Cox Copy Share
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… — Brian Cox Copy Share
