Turok Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn't a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor.

Jodi Picoult

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Neil Turok

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

Neil Turok

#12. Most men are unwilling to be taught.

Samuel Johnson

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

Neil Turok

#14. If I had a nickel for every time I heard the words 'I don't want to ruin our friendship ' I wouldn't be driving a car with an ominously flashing 'check engine' light.

Molly Harper

#15. When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I was really disappointed because it was not at the level I saw in movies. It was not the level of the image I'd imagined.

Olivier Theyskens

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Neil Turok

#20. 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

#21. I have sun damage that I want to repair, but I also want to keep myself from further damage.

Christie Brinkley

#22. 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

#23. A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.

Maria Montessori