Need to get the slide of the master series poster from Melissa Need to get slide of screen shot Of web page from Melissa There may or may not be a God. Or Gods. Yet there is something ennobling about our search for the divine. And also something humanizing, which is reflected in each of the paths people have discovered to take us to deeper levels of truth. Some seek transcendence in meditation or prayers; others seek it in service to their fellow human beings; still others, the ones lucky enough to have the talent, seek transcendence in the practice of an art. Another way of engaging life's deepest questions is science. Not that every scientist is a seeker; most are not. But within every scientific discipline there are those driven by a passion to know what is most essentially true about their subject. Only a handful of scientists have the patience for this work. It is the riskiest kind of work, but the most rewarding: when someone answers a question about the foundations of a subject, it can change everything we know. Lee Smolin "The trouble with physics": The Rise of String Theory, and the Fall of Science, and What comes Next. All science is either physics or stamp collecting Ernest Rutherford 19 th century clouds over the dynamical theory of heat and light. Lord Kelvin, 1901 Think whatever thoughts you please, so Longs you make em Darwinese, yes Everybody say his own Kyrie eleison Get your pass at the alter. Apologies to Tom Lehrer. DARWINISM vs. EVOLUTION Charles S. PeirceAlfred North Whitehead Erwin SchrdingerJohn von Neumann Chance, Love and LogicProcess and Reality What is Life Self-Replicating Automata "[With] the establishment of a reverential attitude toward any statement made by a classical author, [s]cholars bec[o]me commentators on truths too fragile to bear translation. A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost." Alfred North Whitehead Interpretation of Science SIR GEORGE DYSON Kurt Gdel Verena Huber-Dyson 1931, "ber formal unentscheidbare Stze der Principia Mathematica und verwandter Systeme," Monatshefte fr Mathematik und Physik 38: FREEMAN DYSON GEORGE DYSON What is true is not new What is new is not science What is new is not science