General writing about science, even if we do it badly, helps us to see our work in perspective and broadens our vision.
Martin Rees
The advance of science spares us from irrational dread.
Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable... →
The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has... →
And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists aren't always... →
If you are teaching Muslim sixth formers in a school, and you tell them they can't have their God and Darwin, there is a risk they will choose... →
The Blair government perhaps ranks as the best the U.K. has had for 50 years. It cannot match the scale of Attlee's reforms, but has a fine... →
The lives of those such as Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein are plainly of interest in their own right, as well as for the light they shed on the... →
The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight... →
There is an ever-widening gap between what science allows and what we should actually do. There are many doors science can open that should be kept... →