KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Martin Rees Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Martin Rees

Showing 31-40 of 104 Quotes by Martin Rees

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 people at an acceptable standard of living. But I'm a political pessimist in that I am concerned about whether the science will be appropriately applied.

~Martin Rees

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.

~Martin Rees

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Martin Rees

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people raised in a faith-based culture will stick with their religion and be lost to science.

~Martin Rees

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Martin Rees

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.

~Martin Rees

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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 not.

~Martin Rees

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.

~Martin Rees

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.

~Martin Rees

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.

~Martin Rees

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Scientist

Born: June 23rd, 1942

Links

Find Martin Rees on Amazon

Related Authors

Gregory Bateson
Thomas Browne
John Dalton
Humphry Davy
Arthur Eddington
John B. S. Haldane
Paul Nurse
Rupert Sheldrake

Popular Authors

John Adams Julius Caesar Rodney Dangerfield Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Mitch Hedberg Audrey Hepburn Soren Kierkegaard Will Rogers

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1819 - George Eliot

1921 - Rodney Dangerfield

1943 - Billie Jean King

1744 - Abigail Adams

1856 - Heber J. Grant

1857 - George Gissing

1869 - Andre Gide

1890 - Charles De Gaulle

1899 - Hoagy Carmichael

1912 - Doris Duke

Birthdays on November 22nd
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Amazing Birthday Equality Finance Gardening Love Memorial Day Teen