Exploration By Real People Inspires Us.

Science Is Beautiful When It Makes Simple Explanations Of Phenomena Or Connections Between Different Observations.

The Laws Of Science Do Not Distinguish Between The Past And The Future.

Everything That Civilisation Has To Offer Is A Product Of Human Intelligence; We Cannot Predict What We Might Achieve When This Intelligence Is Magnified By The Tools That Ai May Provide, But The Eradication Of War, Disease, And Poverty Would Be High On Anyone's List. Success In Creating Ai Would Be The Biggest Event In Human History. Unfortunately, It Might Also Be The Last.

In This Way, Edwin Hubble Worked Out The Distances To Nine Different Galaxies. We Now Know That Our Galaxy Is Only One Of Some Hundred Thousand Million That Can Be Seen Using Modern Telescopes, Each Galaxy Itself Containing Some Hundred Thousand Million Stars.

I Put A Lot Of Effort Into Writing 'a Briefer History' At A Time When I Was Critically Ill With Pneumonia Because I Think That It's Important For Scientists To Explain Their Work, Particularly In Cosmology. This Now Answers Many Questions Once Asked Of Religion.