# The Sun's Death Will Be Witnessed by Beings Unlike Us by Martin Rees > “It won't be humans who witness the sun's demise: it will be entities as different from us as we are from a bug.” > **— Martin Rees**, *Templeton Prize 2011 acceptance speech, The Guardian, 2011* ## Sources and Context - **Direct publication and full context:** [Templeton Prize 2011 acceptance speech](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/apr/06/templeton-prize-2011-martin-rees-speech) — The linked publication contains the quoted passage and its surrounding argument. - **Master research record:** [[research/Martin Rees on Machine Succession, Post-Human Intelligence, and the Cosmic Future|Martin Rees on Machine Succession, Post-Human Intelligence, and the Cosmic Future]] — preserves this object inside the open Martin Rees source dossier. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/MARS|MARS]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Article:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Deep Time|Deep Time]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Cosmic Future|Cosmic Future]] - [[wiki/Substrate-Independent Evolution|Substrate-Independent Evolution]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “It won't be humans who witness the sun's demise: it will be entities as different from us as we are from a bug.” — Martin Rees, Templeton Prize 2011 acceptance speech, The Guardian, 2011 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-martin-rees-suns-death-witnessed ```