Brian Cox

‘A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty – it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.’

Albert Einstein

The first observation of such a neutron star, known as a pulsar, was made by Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish in 1967

Black holes, to use Hawking’s famous phrase, ain’t so black.

Eugene Wigner, ‘The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. We should be grateful for it.’