Best Paul Davies Sayings
- No planet is more earth-like than Earth itself, so if life really does pop up readily in earth-like conditions, then surely it should have arisen… Arisen
- Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature… Concern
- Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support. Agreed
- Searching for alternative life on Earth might seem misconceived, because there is excellent evidence that every kind of life so far studied evolved from a… Ago
- So how can we test the idea that the transition from nonlife to life is simple enough to happen repeatedly? The most obvious and straightforward… Earth
- The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts… Appeals
- The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is entirely… Been
- Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and time-warping effects occur. Black
- Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and… Birth
- We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God… Accepted
- When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to… Apply
- In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have a precious insurance… Alive
- The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity. Anthropic
- The question not many ask is: why are the laws of physics like they are? Ask
- The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale. Enigma
- I suppose my interest in looking for life elsewhere in the universe really dates back to my teens. What teenager doesn't look up at the… Alone
- To a physicist life looks nothing short of a miracle. It's just amazing what living things can do. Amazing
- In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars and that maybe… Accepted
- "Are we alone in the universe?" This is a question which goes back to the dawn of history, but for most of human history it… Ago
- If we're looking for intelligence in the universe I think everybody assumes that this has to start with life and so the question is: "How… Assumes
- When I was a student almost nobody thought there was any life beyond Earth. Today it's fashionable to say that there is life all over… All
- It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is somewhere in between. Credulity
- I should say we know that there are many, many other Earths out there. We're almost certain that there will be upwards of a billion… Almost Certain
- What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've studied so far… Alien
- Most life on Earth is microbes. we've only just scratched the surface of the microbial realm. Probably less than .1% of microbes have been classified… Alone