Best Paul Davies Quotes
- The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives. Bases
- The thing about lucid dreams is that it's not like the real world where you are constrained by all sorts of things, including the laws… All
- General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all… All
- Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance… Anything Science
- Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation… American
- Very, very slowly, the dwarf remnants of what was once our mighty sun will cool and dim, until it embarks on its final metamorphosis, gradually… Blackness
- Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing finality… Agonizing
- Although gravity is by far the weakest force of nature, its insidious and cumulative action serves to determine the ultimate fate not only of individual… Action
- The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity in an ocean… Activity
- Although the elusive 'cure' may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less menacing. Better
- In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue. Belief
- To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously. Ahead
- A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests,… Advantage
- An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have… Another Form
- Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer,… Brought
- Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable,… Attainable
- 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 be… Accepted
- For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared… Abduction
- If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming with it, for… All
- In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its… Ask
- It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably… Advance
- It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence… Answer
- Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age… Age
- Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to recreate the first… Approach
- My feeling is that scientific method has the power to account for and interlink all phenomena in the universe, including its origin, using the laws… Account