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When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman once recalled a friend, an artist, who would say ...

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For much of the past century, science has often been presented as standing in quiet opposition to belief in God. The deeper we probed nature, the story went, the less room there would be for anything ...

In an era of high anxiety about artificial intelligence, one former Harvard physicist is using it to explore God.