Musings of a Community College Professor

I'm trying to balance teaching, having a life, and staying fit.






Sunday, November 6, 2011

Michal Heller - philosopher and cosmologist

Quotation from Michal Heller, as he was awarded the Templeton Prize in 2008:

"If we ask about the cause of the universe we should ask about the cause of mathematical laws. By doing so we are back in the great blueprint of God’s thinking about the universe; the question on ultimate causality: why is there something rather than nothing? When asking this question, we are not asking about a cause like all other causes. We are asking about the root of all possible causes. Science is but a collective effort of the human mind to read the mind of God from question marks out of which we and the world around us seem to be made."