Sentences with phrase «ultimate purpose of science»
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In the end, Al - Khalili seems sympathetic to those who conclude that science and nature point beyond themselves to an ultimate source of reason, purpose and meaning.
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I do take issue, however, with Hancock when he states that the natural sciences are «for the most part... safely insulated from the questions of ultimate purpose that condition our understanding of the meaning of education.»
«I would say no,» he told a journalist at the National Catholic Reporter, adding, however, that «science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is.»
The Dalai Lama has received this year's $ 1.7 million prize from the John Templeton Foundation, a Pennsylvania - based charity that supports research in the sciences, philosophy, and theology aimed at understanding «big questions of human purpose and ultimate reality.»