Occupation: Physicist Birth: April 22, 1946
The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will ….
People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws of physics - are simpl….
Through my scientific work I have come to believe more and more strongly that the physical universe is put together with an ingenuity so astonishing ….
We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unex….
Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces….
Science may explain the world, but we still have to explain science. The laws which enable the universe to come into being spontaneously seem themsel….
The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose..
There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody has fine tuned nature's numbers to ….
Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature the….
The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical judgment, is ….
General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts t….
Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence "of its own accor….
When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and….
The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say….
Ultimate questions will always lie beyond the scope of empirical science as it is..
I think if we're going to send messages to the stars then it needs a great deal of thought that it's something that should involve the entire not onl….
If we're thinking about old civilizations, those that formed a long time ago and there were stars and planets around long before Earth even existed, ….
My feeling is that scientific method has the power to account for and interlink all phenomena in the universe, including its origin, using the laws o….
The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives..
The question not many ask is: why are the laws of physics like they are?.
Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them….