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
Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm.… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
In spite of the fact that religion looks backward to revealed truth while science looks forward to new vistas and discoveries, both… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws… — 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
There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
In 1911 the little town of Nakhla in Egypt was the scene of one of the most remarkable events in historym when… — 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
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Studying cancer could provide huge insights for astrobiologists into the nature of life itself. — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
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 Image
It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion. — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
