Occupation: Physicist Birth: April 22, 1946
It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rat….
It's always good in science to say "Well how do you know that?" and "Are you really sure?" and "Could there be an exceptional case?".
Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, ag….
The development of artificial intelligence may well imply that man will relinquish his intellectual supremacy in favor of thinking machines. With oce….
Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do ….
Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselve….
In spite of the fact that religion looks backward to revealed truth while science looks forward to new vistas and discoveries, both activities produc….
Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is….
We know that within the solar system is very unlikely there will be anything more advanced than microbial life, but if we think outside the solar sys….
"Are we alone in the universe?" This is a question which goes back to the dawn of history, but for most of human history it has been in the province ….
General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts t….
The question not many ask is: why are the laws of physics like they are?.
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….
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 ….