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Brian Cox é um físico e professor da Universidade de Manchester.É apresentador de diversos programas da BBC sobre ciência, onde durante algum tempo foi membro de uma banda de rock. Ele é filho de bancários e neto de trabalhadores de fábricas de algodão em Lancashire. Era um bom aluno no colégio, mas nada surpreendente, formando-se em física pela Universidade de Manchester. Ainda estudante, entrou na banda D:Ream, que tinha vários hits nas paradas britânicas. Antes, na década de 1980, ele já teve experiência como tecladista na banda Dare.

Brian obteve um doutorado em física em Manchester, com um trabalho sobre física de partículas. Em 1997, a banda D:Ream se desfez. Nos anos 2000, ele apresentou vários programas de TV da BBC sobre física e astronomia. Além disso, mantém desde 2009 um programa de rádio pela BBC, que mistura comédia com ciência e possui grande público. Também dá palestras sobre o LHC e física das partículas, além de aparecer na lista dos homens vivos mais sexies do mundo da revista People em 2009.

É autor de vários livros populares de ciência e foi consultor científico do filme Sunshine. Recebeu diversos prêmios na Inglaterra pelo seu esforço de divulgação da ciência. Ele se considera um humanista, tem uma filha nascida em 2009 e é padrasto de um menino. Seu interesse por astronomia começou quando leu o livro Cosmos, de Carl Sagan. Atualmente trabalha no experimento Atlas do LHC, na Suíça. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. Março 1968
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Brian Cox: Frases em inglês

“As a fraction of the lifespan of the universe as measured from the beginning to the evaporation of the last black hole, life as we know it is only possible for one-thousandth of a billion billion billionth, billion billion billionth, billion billion billionth, of a percent (10^-84). And that's why, for me, the most astonishing wonder of the universe isn't a star or a planet or a galaxy. It isn't a thing at all. It's an instant in time. And that time is now. Humans have walked the earth for just the shortest fraction of that briefest of moments in deep time. But in our 200,000 years on this planet we've made remarkable progress. It was only 2,500 years ago that we believed that the sun was a god and measured its orbit with stone towers built on the top of a hill. Today the language of curiosity is not sun gods, but science. And we have observatories that are almost infinitely more sophisticated than those towers, that can gaze out deep into the universe. And perhaps even more remarkably through theoretical physics and mathematics we can calculate what the universe will look like in the distant future. And we can even make concrete predictions about its end. And I believe that it's only by continuing our exploration of the cosmos and the laws of nature that govern it that we can truly understand ourselves and our place in this universe of wonders.”

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Conclusion in Wonders of the Universe - Destiny

“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.”

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Summing up the documentation Wonders of the Solar System, episode 5

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

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in The Large Hadron Collider will revolutionise how we understand the universe, Telegraph.co.uk Comment (2008-09-06) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3561949/The-Large-Hadron-Collider-will-revolutionise-how-we-understand-the-universe.html

“Yes, [science is my God] in a sense. I'm comfortable with the unknown, that's the point of science. There are places out there, billions of places out there that we know nothing about. And the fact that we know nothing about them excites me, and I want to go out and find out about them. And that's what science is. So I think if you're not comfortable with the unknown, then it's difficult to be a scientist. So I don't need an answer; I don't need answers to everything. I want to have answers to find.”

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Johnathan Ross Show 26 March 2010 BBC One

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

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BBC Radio4 "Big Bang Week" Interview, Sept 2008

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

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in a response on forum LHCConcerns as quoted by Gia Milinovich (2008-09-06) http://www.giagia.co.uk/2008/09/06/cern-scientists-receive-death-threats

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

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Wonders of the Universe - Messengers

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

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Radio Times interview, Sept 8, 2008.

“Science is unreasonably effective, it's generated knowledge beyond all expectation. It's also delivered perspective. Yes, we are an insignificant speck in an infinite universe, but we're also rare. And because we're rare, we're valuable. So what are we to do to secure our future? Well, we must learn to value the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake, and not just because it grows our economy or allows us to build better bombs. We must also learn to value the human race and take responsibility for our own survival. Why? Because there's nobody else out there to value us or to look after us. And finally, most important of all, we must educate the next generation in the great discoveries of science and we must teach them to use the light of reason to banish the darkness of superstition, because if we do that, then at least there's a chance that this universe will remain a human one.”

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Human Universe, episode 5

“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.”

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Watching a solar eclipse in Wonders of the Solar System, episode 1