The Cern laboratory in Geneva was set up in 1955 to bring together European scientists who wished to pursue research into the… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I'm a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers. — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn't underestimate the importance of a can-do attitude to science… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Let me say that I don't see any conflict between science and religion. I go to church as many other scientists do.… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
It might seem paradoxical that the biggest scientific instruments of all are needed in order to probe the very smallest things in… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“Almost any applicable discovery has a potential for evil as well as for good.” — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Scientists surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
It's becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory where sufficiently extreme conditions are ever achieved to test… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
One of President Obama's first acts was to give a massive boost to America's scientific community. — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The politics is far harder than the science. And even if we accept the science we have a big issue of how… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Science is a part of culture. Indeed, it is the only truly global culture because protons and proteins are the same all… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Everything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
If you are teaching Muslim sixth formers in a school, and you tell them they can't have their God and Darwin, there… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The bedrock nature of space and time and the unification of cosmos and quantum are surely among science's great 'open frontiers.' These… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
It's important that everyone realizes how much scientists still don't know. — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I would support peaceful co-existence between religion and science because they concern different domains. Anyone who takes theology seriously knows that it's… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The Blair government perhaps ranks as the best the U.K. has had for 50 years. It cannot match the scale of Attlee's… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The scientific issues that engage people most are the truly fundamental ones: is the universe infinite? Is life just a sideshow in… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
We should all oppose - as Darwin did - views manifestly in conflict with the evidence, such as creationism... But we shouldn't… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
When scientists are asked what they are working on, their response is seldom 'Finding the origin of the universe' or 'Seeking to cure cancer.'… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“The Sun contains about a thousand times more mass than Jupiter. If it were cold, gravity would squeeze it a million times denser than… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“We, and the visible universe around us, may exist only because of a difference in the ninth decimal place between the numbers of quarks… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.' — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I have no religious belief myself, but I don't think we should fight about it. In particular, I think that we should not rubbish… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“More energy is needed to rise a millimetre above a neutron star's surface than to break completely free of Earth's gravity. A pen dropped… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The next humans to walk on the moon may be Chinese. Only China seems to have the resources, the dirigiste government, and the willingness… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
If we ever established contact with intelligent life on another world, there would be barriers to communication. First, they would be many light years… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
There is an ever-widening gap between what science allows and what we should actually do. There are many doors science can open that should… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand. — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
