When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on... →
Paul Hawken
Science is about filling in the details.
Graham Hawkes
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Stephen Hawking
Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix... →
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could... →
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain... →
For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if... →
In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not... →
Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.