Physics used to be known as an exact science. Quantum mechanics has destroyed that notion. Physicists are more willing today to admit that science does not discover final absolute truth, a lesson biologists, geologists, astronomers and all scientists need to learn. There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it. whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.
All information is imperfect.
We have to treat it with humility. I mean that literally. And another Anglican, Shirley Posser, in physics at the college, was no less firm in the faith. The fact that he, like Peter and Lew at Oxford, was a physicist and a Christian led me to formulate a theory as to why so many physicists I knew of still others-were committed Christians. The new physics shows us a universe which looks as though it might conceivably form a suitable dwelling place for freemen, and not a mere shelter for brutes.