166 Quotes by Paul Davies

It's hard for me to play against a zone because you don't get to post up as much.

If we're looking for intelligence in the universe I think everybody assumes that this has to start with life and so the question is: "How likely is it that there will be life elsewhere in the universe?"

I'm sure they missed it by just a hair, but they're still a good team, and I'm sure they'll make that run again in the NIT.

In light of the sudden and unprecedented increase in the price of gasoline and heating oil, we offer the following proposals for your consideration.

We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society is only a few thousand years old, and that human technological society is mere centuries old, the nature of a community with millions or even billions of years of technological and social progress cannot even be imagined. ... What would we make of a billion-year-old technological community?

The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical judgment, is overwhelming. The belief that there is "something behind it all" is one that I personally share with, I suspect, a majority of physicists.

Becoming part of it, you have something to do about it. All the alumni, some may not catch all your games except the Michigan game. You're playing for them, too, for everyone who's graduated here, everyone who's going to come here in the future.

You can't teach it in science class. God has never been a part of science.

It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.