Scientists Tend To Risk Theories They Admire

I Think The Next [21st] Century Will Be The Century Of Complexity. We Have Already Discovered The Basic Laws That Govern Matter And Understand All The Normal Situations. We Don't Know How The Laws Fit Together, And What Happens Under Extreme Conditions. But I Expect We Will Find A Complete Unified Theory Sometime This Century. The Is No Limit To The Complexity That We Can Build Using Those Basic Laws.

The Media Need Superheroes In Science Just As In Every Sphere Of Life, But There Is Really A Continuous Range Of Abilities With No Clear Dividing Line.

A Few Years Ago, The City Council Of Monza, Italy, Barred Pet Owners From Keeping Goldfish In Curved Bowls... Saying That It Is Cruel To Keep A Fish In A Bowl With Curved Sides Because, Gazing Out, The Fish Would Have A Distorted View Of Reality. But How Do We Know We Have The True, Undistorted Picture Of Reality?

The Real Challenge Is To Work Out What Aliens Might Actually Be Like.

What Is Important Is That We Have The Ability To Create.