Martin Rees Citas

• In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter that the observers turned up several billion years later. The universe exists because we are aware of it.

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  Science, Years, Matter

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• La ausencia de pruebas no es prueba de ausencia.

  Martin Rees

  Ciencia, vastedad, ontología

  Citado en Project Cyclops: A Design Study of a System for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life, ed. rev., ed. B. M. Oliver y J. Billingham (1973). Una versión anterior de A. R. Burn apareció en una reseña de libro de Burn en The Classical Review, junio de 1969: "absence of evidence is not identical with evidence of absence".

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• All the atoms we are made of are forged from hydrogen in stars that died and exploded before our solar system formed. So if you are romantic, you can say we are literally stardust. If you are less romantic, you can say we're the nuclear waste from fuel that makes stars shine.

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  Stars, Shining, Atoms

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• Let me say that I don't see any conflict between science and religion. I go to church as many other scientists do. I share with most religious people a sense of mystery and wonder at the universe and I want to participate in religious ritual and practices because they're something that all humans can share.

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  Religioso, Práctica, Gente

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• Nuclear weapons can be dismantled, but they cannot be uninvented.

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  Nuclear, Weapons, Nuclear Weapons

  Martin Rees (2009). “Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just "virtual reality".

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  Real, Hands, Fields

  "Britain needs schools for science" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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• It will not be humans who watch the sun's demise, six billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae.

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  Years, Sun, Six

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• El físico es como alguien que observa a la gente jugar al ajedrez y, después de ver unas cuantas partidas, puede que haya averiguado cuáles son las jugadas del juego. Pero comprender las reglas no es más que un preliminar trivial en el largo camino que lleva de ser un novato a ser un gran maestro. Así que, aunque comprendamos todas las leyes de la física, explorar sus consecuencias en el mundo cotidiano, donde pueden existir estructuras complejas, es una tarea mucho más ardua, y estoy seguro de que inagotable.

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  Moving, Science, Law

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• I think a few hundred years from now we'll start having the 'posthuman' era of different species.

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  Thinking, Years, Different

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I recall a lecture by John Glenn, the first American to go into orbit. When asked what went through his mind while he was crouched in the rocket nose-cone, awaiting blast-off, he replied, "I was thinking that the rocket has 20,000 components, and each was made by the lowest bidder."

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  Thinking, Mind, Orbit

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• The universe is still a place of mystery and wonder.

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  Mystery, Wonder, Stills

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• We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an immense future.

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  Space, Long, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most educated people are aware that we are the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are somehow the culmination. Our sun, however, is less than halfway through its lifespan. It will not be humans who watch the sun’s demise, 6 billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae.

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  Science, Thinking, Years

  "The Catastrophist" by Christopher Hitchens, www.theatlantic.com. January 2010.

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• I would support peaceful co-existence between religion and science because they concern different domains. Anyone who takes theology seriously knows that it's not a matter of using it to explain things that scientists are mystified by.

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  Support, Peaceful, Matter

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• An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand.

  Martin Rees

  Stars, Challenges, Insects

  "Our Cosmic Patch". Interview with Helen Matsos, www.astrobio.net. January 3, 2005.

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• If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star ... They would be made of similar atoms to us. They could trace their origins back to the big bang 13.7 billion years ago, and they would share with us the universe's future. However, the surest common culture would be mathematics.

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  Stars, Future, Science

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• I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can't conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum theory, it could be there as aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our brains They could be staring us in the face and we just Don't recognise them. The problem is that we-re looking for something very much like us, assuming that they at least have something like the same mathematics and technology.

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  Technology, Reality, Moon

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• Hacer campaña contra la religión puede ser socialmente contraproducente. Si los profesores adoptan la postura inflexible de que Dios y el darwinismo son irreconciliables, muchos jóvenes criados en una cultura basada en la fe se aferrarán a su religión y se perderán para la ciencia.

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  Teacher, People, Lines

  "Martin Rees: los ateos deberían abandonar las campañas antirreligión", por Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. 24 de abril de 2011.

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• Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map.

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  Ignorance, Ignorant, Too Much

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• I have no religious belief myself, but I don't think we should fight about it. In particular, I think that we should not rubbish moderate religious leaders like the Archbishop of Canterbury because I think we all agree that extreme fundamentalism is a threat, and we need all the allies we can muster against it.

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  Religious, Fighting, Thinking

  Biography/ Personal Quotes, m.imdb.com.

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• It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong.

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  Fun, Fiction, Firsts

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• La ciencia forma parte de la cultura. De hecho, es la única cultura verdaderamente global, porque los protones y las proteínas son los mismos en todo el mundo, y es la única cultura que todos podemos compartir.

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  Culture, World, Share

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• God invented space so that not everything had to happen in Princeton.

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  Dios, Ciencia, Espacio

  Martin Rees (2011). “Our Cosmic Habitat”, p.9, Princeton University Press

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• To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.

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  Skills, Important, Development

  "The stimulus of science" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2009.

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• Indeed, our everyday world presents intellectual challenges just as daunting as those of the cosmos and the quantum, and that is where 99 per cent of scientists focus their efforts. Even the smallest insect, with its intricate structure, is far more complex than either an atom or a star.

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  Stars, Effort, Focus

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