It is the dialogue that matters most, not its imagined end. It is the sacred act of inquiry wherein we gently trace the experienced outlines of an ever-greater whole.
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As I’ve gotten older, I’ve also become sensitive to the ways – to all that is not amenable to explanation. Things that, even if you had an explanation, what good would it be?
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It is the dialogue that matters most, not its imagined end. It is the sacred act of inquiry wherein we gently trace the experienced outlines of an ever-greater whole.
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Like most young physicists, when I was a kid enraptured with physics, I thought, “Everything can be explained by the theory of the atom!”
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People love science and all it offers, but they also feel a calling in themselves to the sense of what’s deeper.
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Rather than make claims of final theories, perhaps we should focus on our ever-continuing dialogue with the universe.
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Millennials, in particular, consider themselves to be spiritual, but they’re not necessarily going to anybody’s church.
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The more moving parts you have in something, the more possibilities there are.
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So they used the story as a way of fleshing out the ideas. It all depends on where they want to go with it.
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But as I’ve gotten older, and I look at the world, I think there’s a lot of ways in which that kind of building up from the smallest building blocks doesn’t actually account for the world.
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The number of people who consider themselves to be religious and going to services is dropping, and the number of people who consider themselves to be spiritual but not religious is increasing.
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Right now, culturally, we’re seeing a really interesting evolution in ideas about spirituality and the world, right?
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There’s not a single shred of evidence for the multiverse. If, in order to explain this universe, you need a theory that invents an infinite number of parallel universes – that’s not a very good theory.
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Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They’re always responding to what is happening culturally.
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It is the dialogue that lets the brilliance of the diamond’s infinite facets shine clearly. It is the dialogue that instills within us a power and capacity that is, and always has been, saturated with meaning.
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The way superheroes dominate the fictional landscape now, along with dystopian futures and zombies. Yeah, definitely – I think these stories function as a kind of mythology for us.
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