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Neil Turok

(1958) Physicist South Africa

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Neil Turok is a physicist from South Africa, best known for Endless universe.

Quick Facts About Neil Turok

Born: November 16, 1958
Nationality: South Africa
Profession: Physicist
Notable works: Endless universe

About Neil Turok

Neil Geoffrey Turok is a South African physicist. He has held the Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh since 2020, and has been director emeritus of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics since 2019. He specializes in mathematical physics and early-universe physics, including the cosmological constant and a cyclic model for the universe.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Maxwell Medal and Prize Officer of the Order of Canada Fellow of the Royal Society TED Prize Honorary doctor of the University of Ottawa John Wheatley Award Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering

Quotes by Neil Turok

That's progress-when we prove things wrong.

Inspirational

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The only people who can fix Africa are talented young Africans. By unlocking and nurturing their creative potential, we can create a…

Creative

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Some day we'll move into space and start ensuring the survival of our species beyond Earth, whether it happens in a hundred…

Beyond

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If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe,…

Echoes

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My main interest is the problem of the singularity. If we can't understand what happened at the singularity we came out of,…

Any

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We are analog beings living in a digital world, facing a quantum future.

Analog

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My goal is to get people thinking and trying to wrap their heads around the amazing things that have been achieved and…

Amazing things

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Scientists cloister themselves away from the rest of society, happy just to receive their next grant. They lose their connection to a…

Away

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The world is not made up of particles and waves and beams of light with a definite existence. Instead, the world works…

Aware

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I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely…

Began

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Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is…

Hardest

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Quantum physics forms the foundation of chemistry, explaining how molecules are held together. It describes how real solids and materials behave and…

Behave

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It may be that we live in an endless universe, both in space and in time. And there've been Bangs in the…

Bangs

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There have been bangs in the past. There will be bangs in the future. We may live in an endless universe.

Bangs

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If you think about the actual problems we are facing - all the crises - we have the means to solve these…

Able

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You have no beginning of time. It's always been there.

Always

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What I most wanted even at that early age, was to capture and hold the truth, with the certainty and love that…

Age

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My experience in science has always been that the future always exceeds what we believe is possible. I suspect that we will…

Always

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