QUOTES BY Brian Cox

Science is too important not to be a part of a popular culture.

Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.

Anyone who thinks the Large Hadron Collider will destroy the world is a twat.

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.

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.

What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising.

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.