The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science. — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I always look on the black side of life. That way, you won't be disappointed and I'm cheerful if it doesn't work… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“A really big question is why the universe is fit for life; it looks like it has been ‘fixed up’.” — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
To a physicist life looks nothing short of a miracle. It's just amazing what living things can do. — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Studying cancer could provide huge insights for astrobiologists into the nature of life itself. — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives. — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
No intelligent supervisor, no mystic force, no conscious controlling agency swings the molecules into place at the right time, chooses the appropriate… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
No planet is more earth-like than Earth itself, so if life really does pop up readily in earth-like conditions, then surely it… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Cancer is not something confined to human beings. It's found in all multi cellular organisms where the adult cells proliferate, so it's… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I should say we know that there are many, many other Earths out there. We're almost certain that there will be upwards… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I suppose my interest in looking for life elsewhere in the universe really dates back to my teens. What teenager doesn't look… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
If you get a drill and drill down 5km beneath the ground, it's teeming with life - millions of tiny living fossils.… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“The living cell is the most complex system of its size known to mankind. Its host of specialized molecules, many found nowhere… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
If we're looking for intelligence in the universe I think everybody assumes that this has to start with life and so the… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
We know that within the solar system is very unlikely there will be anything more advanced than microbial life, but if we… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
When I was a student almost nobody thought there was any life beyond Earth. Today it's fashionable to say that there is… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist?… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Most life on Earth is microbes. we've only just scratched the surface of the microbial realm. Probably less than .1% of microbes… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“Why is nature so ingeniously, one might even say suspiciously, friendly to life? What do the laws of physics care about life… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview. ..even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Cancer is like another form of life. It's closely related to healthy life. A healthy body is one form of life. Cancer… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Searching for alternative life on Earth might seem misconceived, because there is excellent evidence that every kind of life so far studied… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
So how can we test the idea that the transition from nonlife to life is simple enough to happen repeatedly? The most… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established,… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, I often used to lie awake at night, in fearful anticipation of some unpleasant event the following day, such… — Paul Davies Copy Share
So how can we test the idea that the transition from nonlife to life is simple enough to happen repeatedly? The most obvious and… — Paul Davies Copy Share
I think if we're going to send messages to the stars then it needs a great deal of thought that it's something that should… — Paul Davies Copy Share
Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still… — Paul Davies Copy Share
Studying cancer could provide huge insights for astrobiologists into the nature of life itself. — Paul Davies Copy Share
Cancer cells come pre-programmed to execute a well-defined cascade of changes, seemingly designed to facilitate both their enhanced survival and their dissemination through the… — Paul Davies Copy Share
It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion. — Paul Davies Copy Share
“Until now, I've been writing about "now" as if it were literally an instant of time, but of course human faculties are not infinitely… — Paul Davies Copy Share
A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence… — Paul Davies Copy Share
Although the elusive 'cure' may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less… — Paul Davies Copy Share
Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly… — Paul Davies Copy Share
The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no… — Paul Davies Copy Share
Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the… — Paul Davies Copy Share
Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin… — Paul Davies Copy Share
