Brian Cox Quotes

We are made of star stuff. For the most part, atoms heavier than hydrogen were created in the interiors of stars and then expelled into space to be incorporated into later stars. The Sun is probably a third generation star.

When we look out into space, we're looking back in time; the light from a galaxy a billion light-years away, for instance, will take a billion years to reach us. It's an amazing thing. The history is there for us to see. It's not mushed up like the geologic record of Earth. You can just see it exactly as it was.

My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.

Great telescopes like the Kecks allow us to explore the River of Time back toward its source.

If I had to go back to school for anything, I'd go for astronomy.

We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.

I'm not really into sci-fi movies, but I'm into the science of space a lot. I love astronomy and thinking about the nothingness of the everythingness of space.

The sun is the primary puzzle in the universe.

Space is a laboratory, an experiment in all forms of all things, an infinity of possibilities, properties, and places that cry out for investigation and exploration.

Hubble showed us the marvel and majesty of stars being born.

As a planetary system, Saturn holds the greatest promise for answering questions that have a far broader scientific reach than Saturn itself.

NASA is my favorite website. The universe with its abstract nature attracts me. The abstract element in my poetry comes from there.

By the time I finished high school, I knew I wanted to become an astronomer. By the time I finished college, I knew I wanted to be part of the American space program. And that's exactly what I did.

It now seems logical that all the stars, like our own sun, must have formed with a system of planets around them.

For me, there's something very romantic about going and looking at the stars and trying to photograph spy satellites.

The Hubble Telescope can see the farthest galaxies. The Webb Telescope will see the farthest stars.

Every field of astrophysics - whether it's our local neighborhood of planets, nearby stars and their attendant planets, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, out to the edge of the universe - every field has questions that are awaiting the power of Hubble.

I can't imagine anything more beautiful on this planet than looking up at the stars and seeing a kind of artificial star moving through the night sky.

I don't know why. I'm fascinated with stars and space. I just love them.

The Hubble Space Telescope is more than remarkable. It has answered just so many of those fundamental questions that people have been asking about the cosmos since people were able to ask questions.

There is no stronger case for the motivational power of real science than the discoveries that come from the Hubble Space Telescope as it unravels the mysteries of the universe.

The James Webb Space Telescope was specifically designed to see the first stars and galaxies that were formed in the universe. So we're gonna see the snapshot of when stars started. When galaxies started. The very first moments of the universe. And my bet? There's gonna be some big surprises.

I'll never be done with space. I will always be involved.

The James Webb Space Telescope was specifically designed to see the first stars and galaxies that were formed in the universe.

We are made of starstuff.