As we wrap up Season 9 of the Templeton Ideas podcast, we’d love to share two exciting achievements.
First, we are excited to share that Templeton Ideas—Larry Temkin (Altruism) was named a Winner in the 4th Annual Signal Awards for Thought Leadership for an individual episode! You can read about the award here.
Second, Templeton Ideas hit 1,ooo,ooo downloads of our episodes. We are truly thankful to our listeners for making this show what it is—a place for thinkers, researchers, and wonderers to look inward at ourselves, and outward at our world. We have loved every minute of the awe-inspired journey with you! If you are new to the show, we welcome you to join our community of 200,000+ listeners on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Season 9 gave us a variety of topics, from society to storytelling to space. The expert guests shared wisdom that left us reflective and hopeful. Let’s take a look at this season’s episodes:
Kaitlin Yarnall
“The human ability to see, and create, and imagine, and fail is incredible. Simple things that we think… something right in front of us. And then we realize we don’t know. There’s so much that we don’t know.”
Mark Moffett
“Humans are a durable creature…We are always going to argue, and that is a part of our success. The fact that we are in tension with each other is the way new ideas emerge and new ways of doing things.”
Miroslav Volf
“What kind of spiritual environment do I, as a human, need to be planted so that we can love ourselves with the same unconditional love that we are loved by God?”
Kwame Appiah
“That sense of awe can come from just looking up at night, at the starry heavens… And once you have that sense, I think it’s very hard to think of the universe as lifeless.”
Kelly Corrigan
“I love wonder, so I like to stay open. I like to stay in the “I don’t know” position. It feels good there for me. It feels hopeful and full of potential, and there’s nothing demanding about it.”
David Goyer
“Most audience members want to see people who are imperfect struggle and overcome their demons…You have to find the conflict, because even the most virtuous people in the world have had struggles.”
Timothy Dalrymple
“If you were to go back 100 years, a thousand years, 10,000 years, even further…human beings were staring up at the sky and asking the same kinds of questions of what does this all mean? Where did this come from, if it came from anywhere, and how do we make sense of the staggering beauty of it all?”
Vera Gluscevic
“It’s this beautiful connection between the universe and us. You see this enormous universe where we are just negligible, small, and yet fully capable of holding that universe in our minds and making sense out of it and understanding what came before and what’s gonna come after.”
