Martin John Rees cytaty

Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow – brytyjski astronom i kosmolog.

Studiował w Trinity College, w 1967 roku uzyskał stopień doktora pod kierownictwem Denisa Sciamy. Po stażach podoktorskich wyjechał do Stanów Zjednoczonych, wykładał na University of Sussex oraz University of Cambridge. Na tej drugiej uczelni kierował Instytutem Astronomii.

Prowadził badania nad pochodzeniem mikrofalowego promieniowania tła, tworzeniem galaktyk, zajmował się także kwazarami, gdzie jego badania rozkładu kwazarów były ostatecznym dowodem na brak zastosowania teorii stanu stacjonarnego. Martin Rees uważa, że szukane inteligencji pozaziemskich jest opłacalne, nawet jeśli szansa na sukces jest mała. Autor ponad 500 publikacji naukowych i kilku książek popularnonaukowych.

Jest członkiem Royal Society, a w latach 2005-2010 sprawował funkcję prezesa tego towarzystwa. Od 1995 roku piastuje stanowisko Królewskiego Astronoma. Od 2004 roku nosi tytuł Mistrza Trinity College w Cambridge. Zasiada w radach British Museum i Muzeum Nauki w Londynie. W dniu 6 września 2005 otrzymał tytuł barona . Wikipedia  

✵ 23. Czerwiec 1942
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“Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure irrespective of any of the risks on Earth (with the single exception of the catastrophic destruction of space itself).”

Martin J. Rees książka Our Final Hour

Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning (2003) <!-- | date = 2003-03-18
Kontekst: Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure irrespective of any of the risks on Earth (with the single exception of the catastrophic destruction of space itself). Will this happen before our technical civilisation disintegrates, leaving this as a might-have-been? Will the self-sustaining space communities be established before a catastrophe sets back the prospect of any such enterprise, perhaps foreclosing it for ever? We live at what could be a defining moment for the cosmos, not just for our Earth.

“We live at what could be a defining moment for the cosmos, not just for our Earth.”

Martin J. Rees książka Our Final Hour

Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning (2003) <!-- | date = 2003-03-18
Kontekst: Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure irrespective of any of the risks on Earth (with the single exception of the catastrophic destruction of space itself). Will this happen before our technical civilisation disintegrates, leaving this as a might-have-been? Will the self-sustaining space communities be established before a catastrophe sets back the prospect of any such enterprise, perhaps foreclosing it for ever? We live at what could be a defining moment for the cosmos, not just for our Earth.

“No one can say which approach is the right one — so no one can say how close we are to a solution.”

On developing a unification of quantum theory, relativity and classical physics, "Conversation with Martin Rees" at the Templeton Foundation (1 June 2012) https://www.templeton.org/who-we-are/media-room/video-and-audio/conversation-with-martin-rees

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”

As quoted in Project Cyclops: A Design Study of a System for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life (1971) http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19730010095_1973010095.pdf by Bernard M. Oliver, and John Billingham, Ch. 2 : Life in the Universe, p. 3 ; this has frequently misattributed to Carl Sagan, who quoted it in some of his presentations.

“We’re all depressingly ‘lay’ outside our specialisms — my own knowledge, of recent biological advances, such as it is, comes largely from ‘popular’ books and journalism.”

as quoted by Jessica Bland in [16 January 2012, Martin Rees looks back to understand why 'scientific citizens' will be important in the future, In Verba, The Royal Society, http://blogs.royalsociety.org/in-verba/2012/01/16/martin-rees-looks-back-to-understand-why-‘scientific-citizens’-will-be-important-in-the-future/]