Carolina QuotesI believe there is no long-range question more important than the purpose and meaning of our lives and our universe
Charles Hard Townes
Carolinian
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Templeton Prize address, 2005
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- Templeton Prize address
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- 2005
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As we understand more in each realm, the two must grow together. Perhaps by the time this convergence occurs, science will have been through a number of revolutions as striking as those which have occurred in the last century. Perhaps our religious understanding will also have seen progress and change. But converge they must, and through this should come new strength for both.
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