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Science’s Deepest Belief

by Alexei Tsvelik

To understand the deep connection between science and religion, we need to study the assumptions lying at the roots of scientific thought. No discourse ever starts from nothing; we always make assumptions. When a discourse is young, these assumptions are debated and open to the light of day, but with the passage of time they start to be taken for granted and gradually slip into subconsciousness.

Alexei Tsvelik

Alexei Tsvelik works as a senior scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He is a graduate of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and taught at Princeton, Harvard, and Oxford Universities before joining the Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department at Brookhaven in 2001. He is an author of over 170 scientific publications, including two books on quantum field theory.

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