Stephen Hawking

Physicists and astronomers hubristically seek a “theory of everything.” But here’s a truth few scientists will admit: Our knowledge of the universe can never be complete and will never make…

There’s a new installation on roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, “a spare and unsettling sculpture” according to the New York Times of two huge creatures—a…

Stephen Hawking, arguably the most famous living scientist in the world, now says that the intervention of a divine being in the creation of the universe is “not necessary.”

In the not very distant past—decades, not centuries ago—there was space on the earth for man to make his primeval mistakes of separation, division and rapaciousness. The question of the…

From India with Modi, to Britain with Brexit, to America with Trump, mob rule by demagogues is sweeping the globe, though the complicit commentariat insists on calling it ‘populism.’

Western philosophy, like Western civilization, is in crisis. What Plato called “the highest music” has been reduced to a discordant echo of science. Pouring salt in the wound, Stephen Hawking…

Even the most brilliant and careful scientist is susceptible to bias. As philosopher Daniel Dennett has said, “Nobody is immune to wishful thinking.” Is there an approach other than the…

There’s a lot of interest in human origins these days. A permanent exhibition, featuring more than 200 casts of pre-human and human fossils at the American Museum of Natural History…