I'm 100% Celt. In fact, I'm directly related to the progenitor of the high kings of Ireland, Niall of the Nine Hostages. — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
[The 1975 Chase Econometrics] showed that for every one dollar spent on Apollo, 14 came back into the U.S. economy. — Brian Cox Apollo Copy Share Image
I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I… — Brian Cox Actor Copy Share Image
“Astronomy is what we have now instead of theology. The terrors are less, but the comforts are nil’.” — Brian Cox Astronomy Copy Share Image
Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works. — Brian Cox Atheism Copy Share Image
I always think I look like the Elephant Man - I can't get used to my own image. — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics — Brian Cox Change Copy Share Image
I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist. — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to… — Brian Cox Cinema Copy Share Image
People always make that mistake when they talk about theatre - the notion of the 'theatrical' meaning something separate from life. If… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
“[All good research scientists understand that] no position is unassailable. There are no absolute truth in science. Authority counts for nothing when… — Brian Cox Absolute truth 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… — Brian Cox Darkness Copy Share Image
There's so much light in Broughty Ferry. I think the humour in Glasgow is darker, because it's much more gloomy, there's a… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
I used to do a lot of fencing in the theater and a lot of horse riding in the early days, so… — 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… — Brian Cox Actor Copy Share Image
Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
One might say science is the sum total of our knowledge of the universe, the great library of the known, but the… — Brian Cox Borders Copy Share Image
Charles Laughton, who's a great hero of mine, only ever made one film and it happens to be one of the great… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
“It is undoubtedly true that Galileo didn’t intend to challenge the very theological foundations of the Church of Rome by observing the… — Brian Cox First sight Copy Share Image
There are characters that have made me uncomfortable. I did a film called 'Rob Roy,' and I played Killearn, who was this… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
(On the energy radiated by the Sun) It's four hundred million million million million watts. That is a million times the power… — Brian Cox Climate Copy Share Image
Even the Australians don't know how beautiful their own country is. Particularly where we were shooting 'The Straits.' Most of my stuff… — Brian Cox Aboriginal Copy Share Image
The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry,… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets. — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
No one gets teased for being a geek anymore- science is the new rock n roll — Brian Cox Geek Copy Share Image
At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
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… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
Unlike New Zealand, which has nothing especially predatory, Australia is full of spiders and crocodiles and all kinds of animals that will… — Brian Cox Animals Copy Share Image
Actors in general have become very spoiled in the roles they choose these days. When I first started in this profession -… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
I did a film in which Andy Garcia and Michael Keaton both played the leads, 'Desperate Measures,' and interestingly enough it was… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
For the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small,… — Brian Cox Blackness Copy Share Image
What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising. — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
The trouble with New York today is that it's lost its balance. I love the new, greener New York, but it takes… — Brian Cox Balance Copy Share Image
“[Real scientist are delighted when they find out they are wrong. And to me that is one of the greatest gifts that… — Brian Cox Greatest gift Copy Share Image
We have written the evidence of our existence onto the surface of our planet. Our civilisation has become a beacon, that identifies… — Brian Cox Beacons Copy Share Image
“a prerequisite for the creation of the intellectual edifice upon which your spreadsheets, air-conditioned offices and mobile phones rest was the curiosity-driven… — Brian Cox Adventure Copy Share Image
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