Frases de Paul Davies

Paul Charles William Davies é um físico, escritor e apresentador de origem britânica, reconhecido internacionalmente. Atualmente ocupa o cargo de professor de Filosofia Natural no Centro Australiano de Astrobiologia na Universidade de Macquaire, Sydney. Doutor pela Universidade de Londres, trabalhou também nas universidades de Cambridge, Newcastle upon Tyne e Adelaide. Seus campos de pesquisa incluem cosmologia, teoria quântica de campos e Astrobiologia. Desde 2005, ocupa a liderança da SETI: Post-Detection Science and Technology Taskgroup da International Academy of Astronautics. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. Abril 1946   •   Outros nomes Paul Charles William Davies
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“Matter as such has been demoted from its central role, to be replaced by concepts such as organization, complexity and information.”

Fonte: The Matter Myth: Towards 21st-century Science (1991), Ch. 1: 'The Death of Materialism', p. 9

“The scientific quest is a journey into the unknown.”

Fonte: The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World (1992), Ch. 1: 'Reason and Belief', p. 21

“To a physicist like me, life looks to be little short of magic: all those dumb molecules conspiring to achieve such clever things!”

Fonte: The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence (2010), Ch. 2: 'Life: Freak Side-Show or Cosmic Imperative?', p. 31

“I cannot believe that our existence in this universe is a mere quirk of fate, an accident of history, an incidental blip in the great cosmic drama. Our involvement is too intimate.”

Fonte: The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World (1992), Ch. 9: 'The Mystery at the End of the Universe', p. 232

“The brain is the medium of expression of the human mind. Similarly the entire physical universe would be the medium of expression of the mind of a natural God.”

Paul Davies livro God and the New Physics

Fonte: God and the New Physics (1983), Ch. 17: 'The physicist's conception of nature', p. 223