Brian Cox
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I have hope. I think I was using it in a different way, though. I was imagining hope as like, I don't know, excitement for what's beyond the horizon. Sure. So not driven by... This actually gets to the heart of what I think a scientist is, by the way, the difference between not only a scientist, but let's say, what is a scientist? Or somebody just researching anything, really.
I have hope. I think I was using it in a different way, though. I was imagining hope as like, I don't know, excitement for what's beyond the horizon. Sure. So not driven by... This actually gets to the heart of what I think a scientist is, by the way, the difference between not only a scientist, but let's say, what is a scientist? Or somebody just researching anything, really.
I have hope. I think I was using it in a different way, though. I was imagining hope as like, I don't know, excitement for what's beyond the horizon. Sure. So not driven by... This actually gets to the heart of what I think a scientist is, by the way, the difference between not only a scientist, but let's say, what is a scientist? Or somebody just researching anything, really.
Somebody who creates things. They're people who like to stand on the edge of the known. So they find it exhilarating but interesting. Almost in the context we're talking, it's almost one of the things that drives our existence. Yes. Is to stand on the edge of the known and peer into the unknown with excitement and curiosity because you can go over the horizon.
Somebody who creates things. They're people who like to stand on the edge of the known. So they find it exhilarating but interesting. Almost in the context we're talking, it's almost one of the things that drives our existence. Yes. Is to stand on the edge of the known and peer into the unknown with excitement and curiosity because you can go over the horizon.
Somebody who creates things. They're people who like to stand on the edge of the known. So they find it exhilarating but interesting. Almost in the context we're talking, it's almost one of the things that drives our existence. Yes. Is to stand on the edge of the known and peer into the unknown with excitement and curiosity because you can go over the horizon.
And so that's the sense in which I'm using these terms. I'm saying that's one of the fundamentally most valuable things of being human. Yes. That there is an edge of the known. Yes. And so I would find it, I think, more terrifying to imagine that there was no edge of the known. that everything was known, then I would think existence is pointless. I personally would not find that.
And so that's the sense in which I'm using these terms. I'm saying that's one of the fundamentally most valuable things of being human. Yes. That there is an edge of the known. Yes. And so I would find it, I think, more terrifying to imagine that there was no edge of the known. that everything was known, then I would think existence is pointless. I personally would not find that.
And so that's the sense in which I'm using these terms. I'm saying that's one of the fundamentally most valuable things of being human. Yes. That there is an edge of the known. Yes. And so I would find it, I think, more terrifying to imagine that there was no edge of the known. that everything was known, then I would think existence is pointless. I personally would not find that.
I wouldn't think I'd achieved nirvana. I would think there's no point.
I wouldn't think I'd achieved nirvana. I would think there's no point.
I wouldn't think I'd achieved nirvana. I would think there's no point.
I think we're trying to imagine what it's like to be God, aren't we?
I think we're trying to imagine what it's like to be God, aren't we?
I think we're trying to imagine what it's like to be God, aren't we?
I mean, it is in some technical sense. It has to be.
I mean, it is in some technical sense. It has to be.