Tuesday, March 17, 2009

And the winner is ...

... Bernard d’Espagnat has won the 2009 Templeton Prize. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Bernard d’Espagnat was born on August 22, 1921 in Fourmagnac, France, but spent most of his early years in Paris, where his father, a post-impressionist painter, and mother imbued him with a love of classic literature and the arts. Attending some of the finest schools in Paris, he was drawn to the humanities, especially philosophy. It was during those early years, while riding his bicycle through a large country garden, that d’Espagnat says he first took conscious notice of beauty. Even now, he says, that initial realization serves for him as “a signpost pointing to reality.”
Read the whole thing.

Dave also sends along Mark Vernon's characteristically excellent commentary: Beyond science.

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