Article September 10, 1966 Issue

Signs of the Times

Charles H. Townes

Think magazine

Dr. Charles H. Townes Provost and Professor of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1964 Nobel Prize winner in Think magazine, published by IBM Armonk, New York

[Reprinted by permission from Think. Copyright 1966 by Charles II. Townes.]

The ever-increasing success of science has posed many challenges and conflicts for religion—conflicts which are resolved in individual lives in a variety of ways. . . To me science and religion are both universal, and basically very similar. In fact, to make the argument dear, I should like to adopt the rather extreme point of view that their differences are largely superficial and that the two become almost indistinguishable if we look at the real nature of each. . . .

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