There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
This picture of a hot early stage of the universe was first put forward by the scientist George Gamow in a famous paper written in 1948 with a student of his, Ralph Alpher. Gamow had quite a sense of...
We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing i...
Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.
A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the f...
Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have gre...
Perhaps one day I will go into space.
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.
Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.
In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, parti...
God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.
The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't...
Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.
I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.