Quotes by : Martin Rees

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

Issues relating to global health and sustainability must stay high on the agenda if we are to cope with....

The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically,....

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts....

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and....

Post-human intelligence will develop hypercomputers with the processing power to simulate living things....

Space doesn't offer an escape from Earth's problems. And even with nuclear fuel, the transit time to....

Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance,....

It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth's....

Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical.....