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WATCH: How to Find Meaning in the Bottom of a Boat
How does a scientist who grew up only believing in what could be lab-tested come to find meaning through transcendental experience and deep conversations with a Buddhist monk? Recently we sat down with MIT Professor Dr. Alan Lightman to find out. The acclaimed physicist, author, and John Templeton Foundation grantee joined our Director of Public Engagement, Christopher Levenick, to talk about his career in science, and his long journey to find meaning in his own life. A transcendental moment on the water At the beginning of the video, Levenick reads a passage from Lightman’s book, Searching for Stars on an…
The Secret of Happiness at the Top of a Bell Tower
Was Emerson right about the healing power of awe? In our Study of the Day feature series, we highlight a research publication related to a John Templeton Foundation-supported project, connecting the fascinating and unique research we fund to important conversations happening around the world. In Stendhal’s 1839 masterpiece The Charterhouse of Parma, when the brave, impetuous hero Fabrizio del Dongo finds himself imprisoned alone at the top of the Farnese Tower in Northern Italy, he is surprised to find there not torment, but the first peace of his life. Gazing down from a dizzying height onto the mountain landscape —…
The Illumination Tour
OCTOBER 11–17, 2017 | BOSTON, SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES When what seems like “the ultimate curse” becomes “the ultimate state of being.” When Gordon Gund completely lost his sight at age 30 from the genetic disorder retinitis pigmentosa, his wife Lulie told him she would understand if he chose to end it all. But, she added, if he chose to persevere in the face of the disability, he should be all in: “If you want to do it,” she recalls telling him, “let’s go for it." Gordon Gund’s crisis, and the life that emerged out of it — a…
Physicist and Cosmologist Marcelo Gleiser Awarded Templeton Prize at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
“Science is a flirtation with the unknown, a recognition that we know little of the world around us…” Theoretical physicist and cosmologist Marcelo Gleiser was awarded the 2019 Templeton Prize at a ceremony Wednesday evening, May 29, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium in New York City. “Science is a flirtation with the unknown, a recognition that we know little of the world around us, which we can perceive only imperfectly,” Professor Gleiser said in his Templeton Prize address at the ceremony. “Yet, as it embraces the quest for knowledge, it lifts the human spirit and…
WATCH: Tyler Cowen on how scientific funding moves too slowly, and how he’s fixing it
You may know Professor Tyler Cowen. The George Mason economist, New York Times and Bloomberg columnist, podcaster, and polymath has built a large following for his thoughtful views and voracious curiosity about everything from travel to food, wine, music, and the finer points of fiscal and monetary policy. But since the covid-19 crisis hit in 2020, Dr. Cowen has focused his attention on how to break down the barriers that slow essential medical and scientific innovation. He shared his views in a recent chat with Amy Proulx, the John Templeton Foundation’s Program Officer in Individual Freedom and Free Markets. Cowen…
How are life and consciousness, respectively, characterized, and how are their relations to each other best understood?
“Can GM Crops Help to Feed the World?”: Next Steps and New Directions
Free Will and Alternative God Concepts: New TV Programs for Closer to Truth
Closer to Truth: Philosophy of Biology
Master’s Program in Science and Religion in India
