"While the vast majority of America's philanthropic heavyweights choose to address traditional and tangible social needs — feeding the hungry, curing the sick, subsidizing the arts — Templeton has something else in mind. He wants to make an impact on the world of ideas. Templeton's controversial goal: to reconcile the worlds of science and religion. … When he hears scientists quarrel with believers, he thinks both sides are missing the broader point. "What I'm trying to do is say: 'Don't try to argue — maybe you're both right'...""
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Jessi Hempel in "The Devout Donor" in Business Week (28 November 2005)
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John Templeton
Sir John Marks Templeton (29 November 1912 – 8 July 2008) was an American-born British stock investor, businessman, philanthropist and founder of the John Templeton Foundation and the Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities.
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