When scientists are asked what they are working on, their response is seldom 'Finding the origin of the universe' or 'Seeking to… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The most important advances, the qualitative leaps, are the least predictable. Not even the best scientists predicted the impact of nuclear physics,… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media. — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Most practising scientists focus on 'bite-sized' problems that are timely and tractable. The occupational risk is then to lose sight of the… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Some of the 'aha' insights that scientists strive for may have to await the emergence of post-human intellects. — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The lives of those such as Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein are plainly of interest in their own right, as well as… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime. — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
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
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
It's important that everyone realizes how much scientists still don't know. — 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
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
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
