Martin Rees Quotes

Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.

They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.

Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got seven other planets. The sun? No, the sun is one of those dots in the night sky. The Milky Way? No, it's one of a hundred billion galaxies. And the universe - maybe it's countless other universes.

I am deeply impressed with the way dark matter has explained cosmological observations.

It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes - and each of these will have its own complement of planets.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

The universe is a great mystery.

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

Space is a laboratory, an experiment in all forms of all things, an infinity of possibilities, properties, and places that cry out for investigation and exploration.

Every field of astrophysics - whether it's our local neighborhood of planets, nearby stars and their attendant planets, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, out to the edge of the universe - every field has questions that are awaiting the power of Hubble.

The Hubble Space Telescope is more than remarkable. It has answered just so many of those fundamental questions that people have been asking about the cosmos since people were able to ask questions.

Astronomers still can't decide what the shape of our universe is. Is it closed and finite, which is to say, is there a countable tally of all the galaxies that exist, even beyond the ones we can see? Or is it infinite? The latter possibility is still on the table.

Near the sun is the center of the universe.

I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean.

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.

We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.

We know that the expansion of our universe is accelerating, which means a number called the cosmological constant must be positive.

I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

It's everywhere, really. It's between the galaxies. It is in this room. We believe that everywhere that you have space, empty space, that you cannot avoid having some of this dark energy.

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

It's an audacious thing to build a model of the cosmos. It's exciting how little we know.