Mathematics is universal. It's discovered by human beings, but the rules of mathematics are the same throughout the universe and the laws of the univ….

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is b….

Although gravity is by far the weakest force of nature, its insidious and cumulative action serves to determine the ultimate fate not only of individ….

The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science..

Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and time-warpin….

Studying cancer could provide huge insights for astrobiologists into the nature of life itself..

You've got to get away from the idea cancer is a disease to be cured. It's not a disease really. The cancer cell is your own body, your own cells, ju….

The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally ….

Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature..

Cancer cells come pre-programmed to execute a well-defined cascade of changes, seemingly designed to facilitate both their enhanced survival and thei….

For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a….

No intelligent supervisor, no mystic force, no conscious controlling agency swings the molecules into place at the right time, chooses the appropriat….

In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars and that maybe life began on Mars and ca….

For millennia mankind has believed that nothing can come out of nothing. Today we can argue that everything has come out of nothing. Nobody has to pa….

To a physicist life looks nothing short of a miracle. It's just amazing what living things can do..

The thing about lucid dreams is that it's not like the real world where you are constrained by all sorts of things, including the laws of physics - y….

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….

Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselve….

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….

Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its ag….