Professor Brian Cox
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Team Coco & Earwolf
4.8 • 59.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Brian Cox. |
| 0:05.0 | And I feel, I have no idea how I feel about being a cone of friend. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm sorry, that's disheartening because you're a brilliant man and for you just to go, |
| 0:17.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:18.0 | Feels like a huge letdown for me. |
| 0:21.0 | It's not, it's the key to science. |
| 0:23.0 | So the key to science is not to guess. |
| 0:25.0 | So that's how we acquire reliable knowledge about nature. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm just behaving in a way that I was trained by saying I hadn't thought about it deeply |
| 0:33.0 | enough to give a considered answer. |
| 0:35.0 | And so I thought that therefore I should do what Newton would have done or Stephen Hawking |
| 0:40.0 | would have done. |
| 0:41.0 | Or any of the great scientists and just say I actually have no idea. |
| 0:46.0 | Follow school here and now back to school ring the bell, brand new shoes, walking loose, climb the fence, books and pens. |
| 0:56.0 | I can tell where we are going to be friends. |
| 1:01.0 | I can tell where we are going to be friends. |
| 1:05.0 | Hey there and welcome to Conan O'Brien needs a friend. |
| 1:08.0 | So far this is my best intro ever. |
| 1:10.0 | This confidence. |
| 1:11.0 | It was good. |
| 1:12.0 | And to the point that was good, right? |
| 1:14.0 | It wasn't in my head and then you called attention to it and ruined it. |
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