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Martin Rees

(1942) Physicist

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Martin Rees is a physicist, best known for What Are You Optimistic About?.

Quick Facts About Martin Rees

Born: June 23, 1942
Profession: Physicist
Notable works: What Are You Optimistic About?

About Martin Rees

Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He was the fifteenth Astronomer Royal from 1995 to 2025, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 2004 to 2012, and President of the Royal Society from 2005 to 2010. He has received various physics awards including the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2024 for fundamental contributions to high-energy astrophysics, galaxies and structure formation, and cosmology.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Martin Rees · Page 6

The Blair government perhaps ranks as the best the U.K. has had for 50 years. It cannot match the scale of Attlee's…

Areas

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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…

Citizens

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The universe is still a place of mystery and wonder.

Curiosity

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The scientific issues that engage people most are the truly fundamental ones: is the universe infinite? Is life just a sideshow in…

Astronomy

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We should all oppose - as Darwin did - views manifestly in conflict with the evidence, such as creationism... But we shouldn't…

Adherents

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There's now, for the first time, a huge gulf between the artefacts of our everyday life and what even a single expert,…

Alone

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Some global hazards are insidious. They stem from pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. And they will be…

Billion

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To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.

Application

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It is astonishing that human brains, which evolved to cope with the everyday world, have been able to grasp the counterintuitive mysteries…

Able

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If we do find ET, we will at least have something in common with them. They may live on planet Zog and…

Atoms

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The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The…

Canada

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Experiments that crash atoms together could start a chain reaction that erodes everything on Earth.

Atoms

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The atmospheric CO2 concentration is rising - mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels. It's agreed that this build-up will, in…

Agreed

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In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by…

Astronomy

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Stars that become supernovae start off at least eight times heavier than our sun. They're so short-lived that, even if they have…

Astronomy

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I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can't conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum…

Aspect

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Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people…

Campaigning

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One of the computer models for a four degree temperature rise would give rise to a 10 degree temperature rise in Africa.…

Age

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