Martin Rees Quotes

The ideas of science germinate in a matrix of established knowledge gained by experiment; they are not lonesome thoughts, born in a rarified realm where no researcher has ever gone before.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

Science is about filling in the details.

We have this very clean picture of science, you know, these well-established rules with which we make predictions. But when you're really doing science, when you're doing research, you're at the edge of what we know.

One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.

Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.

Research in the natural sciences operates in successive approximations. We are glad to be able to offer many good problems for research by generations to come.

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

There are many men now living who were in the habit of using the age-old expression: 'It is as impossible as flying.' The discoveries in physical science, the triumphs in invention, attest the value of the process of trial and error. In large measure, these advances have been due to experimentation.

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honor, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

We are not particularly interested in the prestige of space, but in the scientific aspects of it.

The emergence of modern science as a major new frontier of advancement that would lead, on one hand, to the discovery of new secrets of the universe, the invention of means to harness those secrets and the powers they represented, and the means to improve human health and allow humans to survive to both undertake that work and to enjoy its fruits.

If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then you try to do more basic science and applied science until you get it.

The progress of science is tremendously disorderly, and the motivations that lead to this progress are tremendously varied.

I felt I had had enough of politicians and government upheavals …. Suddenly I was enveloped in the feeling that only science is lasting.

What I found was that I thoroughly enjoyed the plumbing of experiment.

I just try to stuff my brain with everything that I can read on what is going on in science at a very high level, and sometimes I see connections of what might need to be done.

I would like people to appreciate science in the same way they appreciate the arts.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

Indian science has a bright future.

Fundamental science that may not achieve results must be supported at the state level.

We need to get across the excitement and creativity of science. That it isn't just a list of facts that have already been discovered - but a process, a creative project, that you are generating ideas, testing them and looking for evidence.

We should not be a party that is opposed to science.

I believe in science. We're going to bring back science to the state of Wisconsin.