Brian Cox Quotes
Best Forces of Nature Quotes by Brian Cox
Forces of Nature Quotes
“Real scientist are delighted when they find out they are wrong. And to me that is one of the greatest gifts that a scientific education can bring. There are too many people in this world who want to be right. And too few who just want to know.”
“Science is delighted frustration. It is about asking questions, to which the answers may be unavailable – now, or perhaps ever. It is about noticing regularities, asserting that these regularities must have natural explanations and searching for those explanations.”
“There are no absolute truth in science. Authority counts for nothing when contradicted by nature.”
“There are three known planets in the PSR B1257 system, which have been named Draugr, Poltergeist and Phobetor. Poltergeist was the first to be discovered. I know, I was curious about their names as well. Poltergeist means "pounding ghost". The Draugr are the undead in Norse legends who live in their graves. And Phobetor is the personification of nightmares, and the son of Nyx, Greek goddess of the night.
Astronomers are goths.”
“You have to get old because of the geometry of spacetime.”
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