Alex Garland Quotes

I'm a person who's very interested in science and the universe and quantum physics and astrophysics.

I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.

I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.

I would like to uncover the secrets of the universe.

And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.

The main reason why people should care about research in fundamental physics is the same reason they care about astronomy and cosmology. People, children, want to know what we're made out of, how it works, and why the universe is the way it is.

When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.

I don't pretend to be an astrophysicist or anything, even though I do read about certain things like metaphysics and cosmology that I've always just been really interested in. I don't pretend to be able to sit down and pontificate on any of these subjects.

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

From a scientific point of view, our mission is to seek answers to the fundamental questions about the universe. Many are open - we don't know about dark matter, which accounts for a quarter of the universe's matter, nor do we know why there's antimatter.

It's hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we're woven into the enormous tapestry of existence. Where did our universe come from? How special is our world, and how special are we? We allocate tens of billions of dollars annually to NASA, NSF and academia in search of the answers.

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

Physicists have as their calling the answering of questions once thought to be unknowable.

In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that we wouldn't have thought were there.

I think I always wanted to go into physics. What always fascinated me about science was the desire to understand what underlies it all, and I think physics is basically the study of that.

As a physicist, I've always found cosmology to be a rational elixir; it distances me from ordinary concerns.

Although we don't know what is outside our universe, astronomers still wonder. Several pictures of what there might be have been dreamed up. An interesting one, called multiverse, has lots of universes. Picture it as a foam of bubbles. Our universe would be one bubble, and we'd be surrounded by lots of other bubbles.

I think my proper response is complete amazement and awe at the universe that we are in, and how it works is just far more complicated than humans will ever properly understand.

I was already studying physics, but Sputnik steered me toward space, cosmology, the Big Bang, and elementary particles.

Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.

If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.

Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit.

For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.

We know there must be new physics. For example, we cannot explain what dark matter is.