OTHER SCIENTISTS
This section is dedicated to the views of nobelists and other notable modern scientists.
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FROM VARIOUS RECENT SOURCES
Brian, Denis (Editor). The Voice of Genius. Cambridge, Masssachussets:
Perseus Publishing, 1995.
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PAUL DIRAC (Nobel, physics, 1933)
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GEORGE WALD (Nobel, Physiology, 1967)
the stuff of mind pervades the universe .The stuff of the world is mind stuff The mind stuff is not spread in space and time.
(P. 146)
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INTERVIEW
The best data we have are exactly what I would have predicted had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole, in that the universe appears to have order and purpose.
Well, if we read the Bible as a whole we would expect order in the world. Purpose would imply order, and what we actually find is order.
(P. 163)
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This world is most consistent with purposeful creation.
(P. 172)
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CHARLES TOWNES (NOBEL, PHYSICS, 1964)
(P. 201)
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(Intro before the interview.)
(P. 241)
Are you religious?
Yes, I was brought up a Protestant Christian and Ive been in a number of denominations I go to church to a very good Methodist church.
(P. 241-242)
I wouldnt say I disbelieve it Certainly I think Jesus was the greatest moral philosopher. And the imitation of Jesus is the way to save your life, I think. Beyond that I dont know.
(P. 242)
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There is a divine Providence over and above the materialistic happenings of biological evolution.
There is a fundamental mystery in my personal existence, transcending the biological account of the development of my body and my brain. That belief , of course, is in keeping with the religious concept of the soul and with its special creation by God.
(P. 371)
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WILDER PENFIELD (World-renowned neurosurgeon)
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scientific view the mind can only find expression through the brain. Now there may be
extraneural communication in the way of prayer, between the mind of man and the mind of
God in the way of extrasensory perception.
(P. 364)
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FROM, Bertch McGrayne, Sharon. Nobel Prize Women in Science. A
Birch Lane Press Book, 1993
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(P.378)
As a physicist, Burnell found such randomness comforting. It actually ties in very well with the randomness of uncertainty that modern physicists know is at the heart of everything and seems to be one of the givens of this world. In fact she found the idea liberating, releasing one from the constraints of rewards and punishments, just and unjust, cause and effect.
P. 378
Sometimes religion appears to be presented as offering easy cures for pain: have faith and God will mend your hurts (But) healing so as to eradicate all the trace of the encounter is not part of the package, she concluded. Brokenness is an essential ingredient in life. Suffering can mature us and make us more sensitive to others ; then through small deeds and kind actions we can interact with empathy, reassuring and helping others But pain is not part of a Grand Design and will not come to a purposeful ending unless we work at it to ensure that it does.
P. 378-379
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(This is a portion of an interview with Candace Pert, the discoverer of the opiate receptor.)
"Einstein and other physicists have described experiencing an almost religious awe when contemplating the laws of the universe. Do you feel the same way about the brain?"
"No, I don't feel an awe for the brain. I feel an awe for God. I see in the brain all the beauty of the universe and its order--constant signs of God's presence. I am learning that the brain obeys all the physical laws of the universe. It's not anything special. And yet it is the most special thing in the universe." (P. 390)
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CHANDRA WICKRASINGE (British scientist who worked with
Sir Fred Hoyle.)
"There's no evidence for all of the basic tenets of Darwinian evolution. I don't
believe there was aver any evidence for it. It was a social force that took over the world
in 1860, and I think it has been a disaster for science ever since.
Genuine science, she says, supports, " some miraculous property of life that's either
explained in terms of a statistical miracle or in terms of an Intelligent intervening.It's
one or the other."
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