Brian Keating

Brian Keating in 2022

Brian Gregory Keating (born September 9, 1971) is an American cosmologist, book author, and podcaster. He is a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego.

Quotes

• Each year, on December tenth, thousands of worshippers convene in Scandinavia to commemorate the passing of an arms dealt known as the merchant of death. The eschatological ritual features all the rites and incantations befitting a pharaoh's funeral. Haunting dirges play as the worshippers, bedecked in mandatory regalia, mourn the merchant. He is eerily present; his visage looms over the congregants as they feast on exotic game, surrounded by fresh-cut flowers imported from the merchant's mausoleum. The event culminates with the presentation of gilded, graven images bearing his likeness.
  This ritual is the annual Nobel Prize award ceremony, but you'd be forgiven for thinking it was an occult sacrament.
  • "Introduction: A Nobel Will". Losing the Nobel Prize. W. W. Norton & Company. 2018.  3rd sentence of quote 5th sentence of quote

… I hope by humanizing science, by showing the craft of science as performed by its master practitioners, you my reader will see common themes emerge that will boost your creativity, stoke your imagination, and most of all, help overcome barriers like the imposter syndrome, thereby unlocking your full potential for out-of-this-universe success.

• • (2021) Introduction to Into the Impossible

• We should be agnostic as to what the dark matter might be.
  • (July 24, 2022)"What is Dark Matter? Govert Schilling: The Elephant in the Universe". Dr. Brian Keating, YouTube. (quote at 54:17 of 1:00:52 in video)

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Brian Keating on Wikipedia
• Media related to Brian Keating on Wikimedia Commons