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. Follow the light and we can journey from the confines of our planet to other worlds that orbit the Sun without ever dreaming of spacecraft. To look up is to look back in time, because the ancient beams of light are messengers from the Universe's distant past.
Brian CoxAt every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made with us knowing what was going to happen.
Brian CoxWe are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
Brian CoxWhat scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising.
Brian CoxScience is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.
Brian Cox(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 United States every year, radiated in one second, and we worked that out by using some water, a thermometer, a tin, and an umbrella. And that's why I love physics.
Brian Cox