Occupation: Physicist Birth: April 22, 1946
When I was a student almost nobody thought there was any life beyond Earth. Today it's fashionable to say that there is life all over the place, that….
If we're looking for intelligence in the universe I think everybody assumes that this has to start with life and so the question is: "How likely is i….
In 1911 the little town of Nakhla in Egypt was the scene of one of the most remarkable events in historym when a chunk of rock fell from the sky and ….
I always look on the black side of life. That way, you won't be disappointed and I'm cheerful if it doesn't work out. I'm a cheerful pessimist..
It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is somewhe….
What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've studied so far on Earth belongs to the same tree….
Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to recreate the firs….
Mathematics is not something that you find lying around in your back yard. It's produced by the human mind. Yet if we ask where mathematics works bes….
Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled..
Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental su….
The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale..
The Eerie Silence: are we alone in the universe?.
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….
The Universe is not a collection of objects, but is an inseparable web of vibrating energy patterns in which no one component has reality independent….
Cancer is like another form of life. It's closely related to healthy life. A healthy body is one form of life. Cancer is in a way nature's experiment….
In spite of the fact that religion looks backward to revealed truth while science looks forward to new vistas and discoveries, both activities produc….
It's worth remembering that all technology leaves a footprint. For example, our own technology is leaving a footprint in terms of global warming, whi….
No attempt to explain the world, either scientifically or theologically, can be considered successful until it accounts for the paradoxical conjuncti….
In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in th….
So how can we test the idea that the transition from nonlife to life is simple enough to happen repeatedly? The most obvious and straightforward way ….
Searching for alternative life on Earth might seem misconceived, because there is excellent evidence that every kind of life so far studied evolved f….