Brian Cox Quotes

The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.

We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

Regardless of what humans do to the climate, there will still be a rock orbiting the sun.

You think of floating on a rock in space as so alien, but that's exactly what we're doing.

Planets look about the same here as they do to you on the Earth because we really aren't that much closer. Our home, the International Space Station, orbits around the Earth at about 200 miles.

The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe.

The sun is the primary puzzle in the universe.

If you go to planetary science meetings and hear technical talks on Pluto, you will hear experts calling it a planet every day.

Of course Pluto is a planet: It's massive enough to have its shape controlled by gravity rather than material strength, which is the hallmark of planethood.

I am sitting here 93 million miles from the sun on a rounded rock which is spinning at the rate of 1000 miles an hour... and my head pointing down into space with nothing between me and infinity but something called gravity which I can't even understand, and which you can't even buy any place so as to have some stored away for a gravityless day.

The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.

Near the sun is the center of the universe.

Hello from above our magnificent planet Earth.

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.

The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you've ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.