Ben Miller > Quotes

“The main thing is the character's [Truman Capote's] interior and without getting too deep into it, there are lots of parallels in Phil's [Philip Seymour Hoffman's] life, which I knew and only became more evident with time. There was something about that character that he could own that nobody else could.”
― Bennett Miller

“Maybe after the Big Bang, some regions of space-time inflated more rapidly than others, becoming isolated bubbles. Maybe what we call the universe is just inside one of those bubbles, and out there in Never-Never-Land are countless others. Our universe happens to be fine-tuned for life; maybe lots of the others aren’t. It’s time to meet the multiverse.”
― Ben Miller, The Aliens Are Coming!: The Extraordinary Science Behind Our Search for Life in the Universe

“It would mean that biology is as universal as chemistry. And where there’s biology, there’s evolution. And where there’s evolution, there’s complex, intelligent life.”
― Ben Miller, The Aliens Are Coming!: The Extraordinary Science Behind Our Search for Life in the Universe

“Instead, he ended up discovering nothing less than a brand new physical quantity, an entity that appears to be as fundamental to the way the universe works as energy or temperature. Because when the time came to try and understand entropy on the scale of atoms, an astonishing discovery was made. Entropy is directly related to information”
― Ben Miller, The Aliens Are Coming!: The Extraordinary Science Behind Our Search for Life in the Universe

“Information is no longer simply being stored in DNA. It is being stored in a network of brains. The name of that network, of course, is culture.”
― Ben Miller, The Aliens Are Coming!: The Extraordinary Science Behind Our Search for Life in the Universe

“The fact that the furthermost galaxies are moving faster and faster away from us means that, in a few billion years or so, they will be moving away from us at the speed of light. At that point, they will disappear from our telescopes, leaving only darkness. Eventually, of course, all but the very closest galaxies will do the same, and one by one the stars will go out, too. Tell me that doesn’t give you the most horrendous claustrophobia. If the Sun dies, we can just move to another star, but jumping ship to another universe is a whole other matter.”
― Ben Miller, The Aliens Are Coming!: The Extraordinary Science Behind Our Search for Life in the Universe

“No,’ he said. ‘Any hand luggage?’ Harrison looked at the black hole. ‘Just this,’ he said. There was a long pause, while the lady studied something on her screen.”
― Ben Miller, The Boy Who Made the World Disappear

“I don’t know but I’ve been told”
― Ben Miller, The Aliens Are Coming!: The Extraordinary Science Behind Our Search for Life in the Universe

“That morning, on their way to the train station, they had asked the taxi to stop off at a hairdresser called Hairs R Us.”
― Ben Miller, The Boy Who Made the World Disappear

“Calculating that the patch of sky she wanted would be in the telescope at around two o’clock in the morning, she decided on no sleep till Belfast, and headed over to the observatory.”
― Ben Miller, The Aliens Are Coming!: The Extraordinary Science Behind Our Search for Life in the Universe

“Fawlty Towers, for example, which first aired in 1975, is only just reaching alien worlds thirty-five light-years away. The Office,”
― Ben Miller, The Aliens Are Coming!: The Extraordinary Science Behind Our Search for Life in the Universe