I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.

Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can.

I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.

I still say the Lord's Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates of modern science in the seventeenth century. Perhaps the laws of nature have actually evolved along with nature itself, and perhaps they are still evolving. Or perhaps they are not laws at all, but more like habits.