Scientific Revolutions, Almost By Definition, Defy Common

Science Is Given Almost No Visibility In The Media. If A Martian Came Down To Earth And Watched Television, He'd Come To The Conclusion That All The World's Society Is Based On Britney Spears And Paris Hilton. He'd Be Amazed That Our Society Hasn't Collapsed.

In Fact, All Of Us Have A Piece Of Chernobyl In Our Bodies Going Back To 1986.

I Had Two Passions When I Was A Child. First Was To Learn About Einstein's Theory And Help To Complete His Dream Of A Unified Theory Of Everything. That's My Day Job. I Work In Something Called String Theory. I'm One Of The Founders Of The Subject. We Hope To Complete Einstein's Dream Of A Theory Of Everything.

To Understand The Difficulty Of Predicting The Next 100 Years, We Have To Appreciate The Difficulty That The People Of 1900 Had In Predicting The World Of 2000.

You Cannot Create New Science Unless You Realise Where The Old Science Leaves Off And New Science Begins, And Science Fiction Forces Us To Confront This.