Quotes by : Martin Rees

Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers....

Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn't underestimate the importance....

Most theorists suspect that space has an intricate structure - that it is 'grainy' - but that this structure....

The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it,....

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

The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeons....

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....

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

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