Memes mentioning “Martin Rees”

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Martin Rees: We'll Never Hit Barriers To Scientific Understanding

We humans haven't changed much since our remote ancestors roamed the African savannah. Our brains evolved to cope with the human-scale environment. So it is surely remarkable that we can make sense of phenomena that confound everyday intuition: in particular, the minuscule atoms we're made of, and the vast cosmos that…

May 25, 2015 1

transhumanism
understanding

Pessimism VS Optimism in Science

By and large, literary intellectuals tend to be a gloomy lot, with little but scorn for science and technology as engines of human happiness. By contrast, science is impossible without hope; it is inherently forward-looking. As Ian McEwan says: "You can't be curious and depressed." So the two cultures are not based so…

Jan 5, 2012 1 1

hope
pessimism
two cultures
virtue