Neil Turok Professions : PhysicistBorn : November 16, 1958 Browse All Authors Top 19 quotes by Neil Turok 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 dreampeoplethinking The only people who can fix Africa are talented young Africans. By Neil Turok unlockingcreativepeople We are analog beings living in a digital world, facing a quantum future. Neil Turok quantumdigitalworld 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 quantumhardestphysics There have been bangs in the past. There will be bangs in the future. We may live in an endless universe. Neil Turok bangsmaypast You have no beginning of time. It's always been there. Neil Turok That's progress: when we prove things wrong. Neil Turok progressprove 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 captureand-loveage 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 loserestsocietyhappy 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 problemsthinkyoupast 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 futureexperiencesciencebelieve 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 picturelighttimeworld Quantum physics forms the foundation of chemistry, explaining how molecules are held together. It describes how real solids and materials behave and how electricity is conducted through them... It enabled the development of transistors, integrated circuits, lasers, LEDs, digital cameras and all the modern gadgetry that surrounds us. Neil Turok foundationchemistryrealtogether My main interest is the problem of the singularity. If we can't understand what happened at the singularity we came out of, then we don't seem to have any understanding of the laws of particle physics. I'd be very happy just to understand the last singularity and leave the other ones to future generations. Neil Turok understandfutureproblemhappy 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 wavesyouexistenceuniverse 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 godtimesciencereligion 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 futurespacetimepast 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 stepfuturechangepeople 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 daystartsurvivalspace Similar Authors Gabriel Lippmann physicist Burton Richter physicist Bruno Rossi physicist Bruce Maccabee physicist Brian Cox physicist Allan McLeod Cormack physicistAll Authors
