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14 quotes by Neil Turok

Neil Geoffrey Turok (born 16 November 1958 ) is a South African physicist, and the Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. His work has been in the area of mathematical physics and early universe physics, including the cosmological constant and a cyclic model for the Universe. Recent evidence for gravitational waves from the Big Bang appeared to provide evidence against this model, though the claim that the BICEP2 experiment has...
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Quantum physics forms the foundation of chemistry, explaining how molecules are held together. It describes how real solids and materials behave and... →

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

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different... →

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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... →

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If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the... →

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

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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... →

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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.

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

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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.

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