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The Fact That I Don't Have Any Particular Need For Religion Doesn't Mean That I Have A Need To Cast Religion Aside The Way Some Of My Colleagues Do.

The Tantalizing Discomfort Of Perplexity Is What Inspires Otherwise Ordinary Men And Women To Extraordinary Feats Of Ingenuity And Creativity; Nothing Quite Focuses The Mind Like Dissonant Details Awaiting Harmonious Resolution.

In Essence, We String Theorists Have Been Trying To Work Out The Score Of The Universe, The Harmonies Of The Universe, The Mathematical Vibrations That The Strings Would Play. So Musical Metaphors Have Been With Us In Science Since The Beginning.

But, As Einstein Once Said, “for We Convinced Physicists, The Distinction Between Past, Present, And Future Is Only An Illusion, However Persistent.”5

I Believe That Through Its Rational Evaluation Of Truth And Indifference To Personal Belief, Science Transcends Religious And Political Divisions And So Does Bind Us Into A Greater, More Resilient Whole.