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In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.

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I'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are.

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Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.

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It's important that everyone realizes how much scientists still don't know.

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The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing.

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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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Devastation could arise insidiously, rather than suddenly, through unsustainable pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. Indeed, these pressures are the prime 'threats without enemies' that confront us.

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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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If you take 10,000 people at random, 9,999 have something in common: their interests in business lie on or near the Earth's surface. The odd one out is an astronomer, and I am one of that strange breed.

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We can trace things back to the earlier stages of the Big Bang, but we still don't know what banged and why it banged. That's a challenge for 21st-century science.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Scientist

Born: June 23rd, 1942

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