Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Martin Rees Quotes

British - Scientist | June 23, 1942 -

Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.

Computers Achieve Will Human Claim

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

Technology Innovation Space Push

I'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are.

Myself Wish Insult Who Religious

Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.

Science Training Just Careers

It's important that everyone realizes how much scientists still don't know.

Know Important Everyone Still Much

The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing.

Challenge Commitment Moon Energy

I think a few hundred years from now we'll start having the 'posthuman' era of different species.

Start Think Now Years Different Era

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.

Water Food Energy Pressure Resources

We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an immense future.

Future Time Space Long Heritage Our

If you take 10,000 people at random, 9,999 have something in common: their interests in business lie on or near the Earth's surface. The odd one out is an astronomer, and I am one of that strange breed.

Business Lie I Am People Random You

We can trace things back to the earlier stages of the Big Bang, but we still don't know what banged and why it banged. That's a challenge for 21st-century science.

Science Challenge Back Know Why Big

Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from us. We've entered a geological era called the anthropocene. This started, perhaps, with the invention of thermonuclear weapons.

Nature History Now Worst Invention

First Prev page 3 456 7 8 Next page Last

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Martin Rees quotes