Quotes by Martin Rees

Martin Rees

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Ontology

Science

Vastness

All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.

Innovation

Space

Technology

All the atoms we are made of are forged from hydrogen in stars that died and exploded before our solar system formed. So if you are romantic, you can say we are literally stardust. If you are less romantic, you can say we’re the nuclear waste from fuel that makes stars shine.

Atoms

Shining

Stars

An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand.

Challenges

Insects

Stars

Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people raised in a faith-based culture will stick with their religion and be lost to science.

Lines

People

Teacher

Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen Newton. He would have won hands down in an IQ test, but if you ask who was the most attractive personality then Darwin is the one you’d wish to meet. Newton was solitary and reclusive, even vain and vindictive in his later years when he was president of the society.

Hands

Personality

Years

Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere – perhaps irreversibly – through global warming and loss of biodiversity.

Action

Global Warming

Loss

Cosmology does, I think, affect the way that we perceive humanity’s role in nature. One thing we’ve learnt from astronomy is that the future lying ahead is more prolonged than the past. Even our sun is less than halfway through its life.

Lying

Past

Thinking

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just “virtual reality”.

Fields

Hands

Real

Devastation could arise insidiously, rather than suddenly, through unsustainable pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. Indeed, these pressures are the prime ‘threats without enemies’ that confront us.

Devastation

Enemy

Water

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Accepting

Achieve

Action

Atmosphere

Atoms

Average

Believe

Benefits

Bigs

Brain

Canada

Cancer

Carbon Dioxide

Careers

Challenges

Children

Civilization

Claims

Climate

Commitment

Computer

Country

Crafts

Culture

Cutting

Design

Devastation

Development

Different

Drug

Earth

Effort

Enemy

Errors

Essence

Europe

Experts

Fiction

Fields

Fighting

Firsts

Focus

Fun

Future

Germany

Giving

Global Warming

God

Hands

Ice

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Quotes by Martin Rees

Martin Rees

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.

All the atoms we are made of are forged from hydrogen in stars that died and exploded before our solar system formed. So if you are romantic, you can say we are literally stardust. If you are less romantic, you can say we’re the nuclear waste from fuel that makes stars shine.

An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand.

Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people raised in a faith-based culture will stick with their religion and be lost to science.

Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere – perhaps irreversibly – through global warming and loss of biodiversity.

Cosmology does, I think, affect the way that we perceive humanity’s role in nature. One thing we’ve learnt from astronomy is that the future lying ahead is more prolonged than the past. Even our sun is less than halfway through its life.

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just “virtual reality”.

Devastation could arise insidiously, rather than suddenly, through unsustainable pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. Indeed, these pressures are the prime ‘threats without enemies’ that confront us.

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