Turok 2 Quotes

#1. We are analog beings living in a digital world, facing a quantum future.

Neil Turok

#2. My goal is to get people thinking and trying to wrap their heads around the amazing things that have been achieved and to dream about what will be achieved.

Neil Turok

#3. If you think about the actual problems we are facing - all the crises - we have the means to solve these crises. The past has shown us we are able to do things we never imagined we would be able to do.

Neil Turok

#4. Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke

#5. Scientists cloister themselves away from the rest of society, happy just to receive their next grant. They lose their connection to a purpose.

Neil Turok

#6. What I most wanted even at that early age, was to capture and hold the truth, with the certainty and love that it brings.

Neil Turok

#7. So bleary with jet lag that she could not sleep or make any sense in conversation, and feeling that her brain was a haunted house in which bats flew randomly from one attic beam to another,

Charles Baxter

#8. Curious by nature and reckless by choice

M. Barreto Condado

#9. Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong.

Neil Turok

#10. Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization's sadnesses.

Gustave Flaubert

#11. The world is not made up of particles and waves and beams of light with a definite existence. Instead, the world works in a much more exploratory way. It is aware of all the possibilities at once and trying them out all the time. That is a hard thing to picture.

Neil Turok

#12. There have been bangs in the past. There will be bangs in the future. We may live in an endless universe.

Neil Turok

#13. In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own.

Hayao Miyazaki

#14. That's progress-when we prove things wrong.

Neil Turok

#15. The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

Deepak Chopra

#16. It may be that we live in an endless universe, both in space and in time. And there've been Bangs in the past, and there will be Bangs in the future.

Neil Turok

#17. Being interesting has been replaced by being identifiable.

Chuck Klosterman

#18. Time was his servant, too; it would trap me, here, in a night that would last until he came back to me, like a black sun on a hopeless morning.

Angela Carter

#19. Some day we'll move into space and start ensuring the survival of our species beyond Earth, whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand.

Neil Turok

#20. My experience in science has always been that the future always exceeds what we believe is possible. I suspect that we will explore the universe.

Neil Turok

#21. He is most powerful who governs himself.

Seneca The Younger

#22. I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different things. I don't see science as relevant to the question of whether or not there's a God.

Neil Turok

#23. You have no beginning of time. It's always been there.

Neil Turok

#24. If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe, a pattern of echoes of the inflation itself.

Neil Turok

#25. The only people who can fix Africa are talented young Africans. By unlocking and nurturing their creative potential, we can create a step change in Africa's future.

Neil Turok

#26. I will await below," Stilgar said, "while Idaho makes farewell with his friends. Turok was the name of our dead friend. Remember that when it comes time to release his spirit. You are friends of Turok.

Frank Herbert

#27. After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.

Aung San Suu Kyi