All Martin Rees Quotes
- The next humans to walk on the moon may be Chinese. Only China seems to have the resources, the dirigiste government, and the willingness to… American
- The scientific issues that engage people most are the truly fundamental ones: is the universe infinite? Is life just a sideshow in the cosmos? What… Bang
- General writing about science, even if we do it badly, helps us to see our work in perspective and broadens our vision. Badly
- It is astonishing that human brains, which evolved to cope with the everyday world, have been able to grasp the counterintuitive mysteries of the cosmos… Able
- There are strong reasons for believing that space goes on beyond the limits of our observational horizon. There are strong reasons because if you look… Believing
- The advance of science spares us from irrational dread. Advance
- The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against fundamentalism. Attack
- Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks:… Advances
- The stupendous time spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture (though maybe not in the United States Bible Belt, nor in… Belt
- The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeons involved in traversing the galaxy are… Aeons
- Space and time may have a structure as intricate as the fauna of a rich ecosystem, but on a scale far larger than the horizon… Ecosystem
- Indeed, our everyday world presents intellectual challenges just as daunting as those of the cosmos and the quantum, and that is where 99 per cent… Atom