From the BBC Interview for Horizon 'The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. Animated by Fraser Davidson (sweetcrude.tv).

"The key [of learning] was somehow to know what was important and what was not important, what was exciting, because I can’t learn everything." - Richard Feynman in 1966

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We live in a heroic age; We live in a moment that will never come again. These discoveries cannot be made twice. One doesn't discover America two or three times in succession... Some people say our age is meaningless. Those are only people who don't know what we're doing in this age. That this age is the age in which mankind is finding out about the nature that he lives in. If they don't understand what's already been uncovered, they can't appreciate the search.

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Professor Brian Cox uses the Perito Moreno glacier in Patagonia, Argentina to help explain the Arrow of Time; a concept that tells us why sequences happen in the order they do.

Professor Brian Cox builds sandcastles in the Namib Desert to explain why time travels in one direction. It is a result of a phenomenon called entropy; a law of physics that tells us any system tends towards disorder.

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A proverb of the Buddhist religion: "To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; The same key opens the gates of hell."