Brian Cox Quotes - Page 2

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• For the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small, fragile-looking world just hanging against the blackness of space.

  Brian Cox

  Motivation, Inspiration, Our World

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• 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 not undermining just that, you're undermining the basis of rational decision-making in society.

  Brian Cox

  Decision, Problem, Economics

  "Brian Cox: scientists giving false sense of debate on climate change" by Karl Mathiesen, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2014.

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• At 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 Cox

  Knowing, Understanding, Benefits

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• There is so much left of it to explore.

  Brian Cox

  Left

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• In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies.

  Brian Cox

  Independent, Cinema, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that.

  Brian Cox

  Fall, Egalitarianism, Theatre

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Brian Cox

  Rocks, Balls, Looks

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• 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.

  Brian Cox

  Home, Surface, Beacons

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• [The 1975 Chase Econometrics] showed that for every one dollar spent on Apollo, 14 came back into the U.S. economy.

  Brian Cox

  Motivation, Inspiration, Dollars

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• For me, Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' defines New York. Both New York and Manhattan Island should be in black in white! I always hear the soundtrack of Gershwin in my head every time I go over the Queensboro Bridge, or come in from JFK because of it!

  Brian Cox

  New York, Islands, Bridges

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• The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry. In doing this, the audiences have lost touch with the aspects of film which were to be informative and educational and even spiritual.

  Brian Cox

  Spiritual, Educational, Marketing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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