Martin Rees Citas

• Al principio sólo había probabilidades. El universo sólo podía existir si alguien lo observaba. No importa que los observadores aparecieran varios miles de millones de años después. El universo existe porque somos conscientes de él.

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  Ciencia, Años, Materia

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• La ausencia de pruebas no es prueba de ausencia.

  Martin Rees

  Ciencia, vastedad, ontología

  Quoted in Project Cyclops: A Design Study of a System for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life, rev. ed., ed. B. M. Oliver and J. Billingham (1973). An earlier version by A. R. Burn appeared in a book review by Burn in The Classical Review, June 1969: "absence of evidence is not identical with evidence of absence."

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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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• 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.

  Martin Rees

  Stars, Shining, Atoms

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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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• No serán los humanos los que vean la desaparición del sol dentro de seis mil millones de años. Cualquier criatura que exista entonces será tan diferente de nosotros como nosotros lo somos de las bacterias o las amebas.

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  Years, Sun, Six

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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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• 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.

  Martin Rees

  Mudanza, Ciencia, Ley

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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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  Pensar, Años, Diferentes

  "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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• 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.

  Martin Rees

  Science, Thinking, Years

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

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

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  Mystery, Wonder, Stills

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• Yo apoyaría la coexistencia pacífica entre religión y ciencia porque se refieren a ámbitos diferentes. Cualquiera que se tome la teología en serio sabe que no se trata de utilizarla para explicar cosas que desconciertan a los científicos.

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  Support, Peaceful, Matter

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• Un insecto es más complejo que una estrella... y es un reto mucho mayor de entender.

  Martin Rees

  Estrellas, Retos, Insectos

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

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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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• 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.

  Martin Rees

  Stars, Future, Science

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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: Atheists should drop anti-religion campaigns" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2011.

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Martin Rees

  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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• Todos deberíamos oponernos, como hizo Darwin, a opiniones que entran manifiestamente en conflicto con la evidencia, como el creacionismo... Pero no deberíamos plantear este debate como "religión contra ciencia", sino que deberíamos esforzarnos por coexistir pacíficamente al menos con las corrientes menos dogmáticas de las religiones dominantes, que cuentan con muchos científicos excelentes entre sus fieles.

  Martin Rees

  Vistas, Números, Tranquilidad

  "Martin Rees: Atheists should drop anti-religion campaigns" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2011.

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• No soy religioso, pero no quiero insultar ni denigrar a los que sí lo son.

  Martin Rees

  Religious, Wish, Insult

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• Los científicos tienen una responsabilidad especial. Son sus ideas las que forman la base de la nueva tecnología. No deben ser indiferentes a los frutos de sus ideas. Deben renunciar a los experimentos arriesgados o poco éticos.

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  Responsabilidad, Tecnología, Ideas

  "Dark materials" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. June 09, 2006.

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