You Are All Stardust.

Neutrinos Alone, Among All The Known Particles, Have Ethereal Properties That Are Striking And Romantic Enough Both To Have Inspired A Poem By John Updike And To Have Sent Teams Of Scientists Deep Underground For 50 Years To Build Huge Science-fiction-like Contraptions To Unravel Their Mysteries.

The One Experience That I Hope Every Student Has At Some Point In Their Lives Is To Have Some Belief You Profoundly, Deeply Hold, Proved To Be Wrong Because That Is The Most Eye-opening Experience You Can Have, And As A Scientist, To Me, Is The Most Exciting Experience I Can Ever Have.

In This Sense, Science, As Physicist Steven Weinberg Has Emphasized, Does Not Make It Impossible To Believe In God, But Rather Makes It Possible To Not Believe In God.

When A Person's Religious Beliefs Cause Him To Deny The Evidence Of Science, Or For Whom Public Policy Morphs Into A Battle With The Devil, Shouldn't That Be A Subject For Discussion And Debate?

For The Record: Quantum Mechanics Does Not Deny The Existence Of Objective Reality. Nor Does It Imply That Mere Thoughts Can Change External Events. Effects Still Require Causes, So If You Want To Change The Universe, You Need To Act On It.