Brian Cox Quotes

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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…
• We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
• We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets.
• 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.
• (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…
• 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.…
• Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.
• In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now…
• Unlike New Zealand, which has nothing especially predatory, Australia is full of spiders and crocodiles and all kinds of animals that will eat you and…
• Actors in general have become very spoiled in the roles they choose these days. When I first started in this profession - about a hundred…
• The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry.…
• The heritage of a British actor revolves around the challenges of playing the classic roles to meet certain levels of success as an actor. In…
• There is a history of mental breakdowns in my family. It will never happen to me but it has happened to others in the family.

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