I'm a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to support 9 billion... →
Martin Rees
Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn't underestimate the importance of a can-do attitude to science... →
Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.
Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.
It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be... →
Science is a part of culture. Indeed, it is the only truly global culture because protons and proteins are the same all over the world, and it's... →
Science is the one culture that's truly global - protons, proteins and Pythagoras's Theorem are the same from China to Peru. It should... →
The best science fiction, from H G Wells onwards, can nourish everyone's imagination. It can widen the perspective of astronomers too - that... →
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... →
I would support peaceful co-existence between religion and science because they concern different domains. Anyone who takes theology seriously knows... →