You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful..

Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder..

The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even ….

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look..

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician..

Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star..

When we look out into space, we are looking into our own origins, because we are truly children of the stars..

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

Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics.

We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets..

At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made with us k….

The story of the universe finally comes to an end. For the first time in its life, the universe will be permanent and unchanging. Entropy finally sto….

It would be wonderful if ideas could be the new rock 'n roll.

One might say science is the sum total of our knowledge of the universe, the great library of the known, but the practice of science happens at the b….

In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false..

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

There is so much left of it to explore..

If people don’t have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is jus….

When you fall into a black hole you will be literally spaghettified..

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 hangin….

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works..