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Marcelo Gleiser
Theoretical Physicist
Marcelo Gleiser is a professor of natural philosophy, physics, and astronomy at Dartmouth College. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a recipient of the Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from the White House and NSF, and was awarded the 2019 Templeton Prize. Gleiser has authored five books and is the co-founder of 13.8, where he writes about science and culture with physicist Adam Frank.
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From the tablets of the Babylonians to the telescopes of modern science, humans have always looked to the skies for fundamental answers.
Science and the humanities have been antagonistic for too long. Many of the big questions of our time require them to work closer than ever.
Most people have a distorted view of what being a scientist is like. Scientists need to make a greater effort to challenge stereotypes.
We cannot deduce laws about a higher level of complexity by starting with a lower level of complexity. Here, reductionism meets a brick wall.
The paradox of tribalism is that humans need a sense of belonging to be healthy and happy, but too much tribalism is deadly. We are one tribe.
Life is possible because of asymmetries, such as an imbalance between matter and antimatter and the "handedness" (chirality) of molecules.
The Universe has asymmetries, but that's a good thing. Imperfections are essential for the existence of stars and even life itself.