Brian Cox: What can we learn from the professor of wonder?
The celebrated physicist – once a rocker – talks about curiosity, galaxies, walking on the Moon and the power of saying ‘I don’t know’.
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Celebrity physicist Brian Cox, who is UN Champion for Space, is bringing his new show, Emergence, to Singapore.
PHOTO: LATERAL EVENTS
Wonder is a path someone must walk you down. My father first took me there even before I fully understood it. Get the Britannica, he’d growl, and I’d groan. Volume 13 was opened, pages flicked, the Nile found, a journey commenced. He was taking me travelling, down a great river of knowledge where we’d find maps, papyrus and mentions of Homer’s Odyssey.
Wonder is the spark that ignites curiosity. It’s akin to a window opening to a new world and it is what Brian Cox does. He lives on Earth but leads us on voyages beyond. Last week I spoke to the celebrated physicist and by chance discovered there are nymphs in the sky and princesses among the stars.
