I have five minutes left to give you a message to take home. The message is simple. 'God forbid that we should give out a dream of our own imagination for a pattern of the world'. This was said by Francis Bacon, one of the founding fathers of modern science, almost four hundred years ago. Bacon was the smartest man of his time, with the possible exception of William Shakespeare.

Unfortunately a large number of people in many countries are strongly opposed to green technology, for reasons having little to do with the real dangers. It is…

I am saying to modern scientists and theologians: don't imagine that our latest ideas about the Big Bang or the human genome have solved the mysteries of the u…

To talk about the end of science is just as foolish as to talk about the end of religion. Science and religion are both still close to their beginnings, with n…

It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

I do not think we are deceived to grow, But that the crudest fancy, slightest show, Covers some separate truth that we may know. In the one Truth, each separat…

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.