Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.

Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

Many have a feeling that somehow intelligence must have been involved in the laws of the universe.

I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.

The late Richard Feynman, a superb physicist, said once as we talked about the laser that the way to tell a great idea is that, when people hear it, they say, 'Gee, I could have thought of that.'

Science, with its experiments and logic, tries to understand the order or structure of the universe. Religion, with its theological inspiration and reflection, tries to understand the purpose or meaning of the universe. These two are cross-related. Purpose implies structure, and structure ought somehow to be interpretable in terms of purpose.