"The existence of God cannot be used as any scientific hypothesis: it is something different that transcends science. [...] I would be a terrible theologian if I tried to do an experiment to prove the existence of God, and a terrible scientist if I tried to explain my experimental data by hypothesizing the existence of God. [...] I'm always annoyed when people ask me about my religious opinions in interviews. I don't think they ever ask that of footballers, singers, models, categories for which I have the utmost respect. Interviewers implicitly assume that scientists possess privileged knowledge of God, but this is not true."
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Nobel laureates in PhysicsPhysicists from ItalyColumbia University facultyMembers of the American Philosophical SocietyItalian Freemasons
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Letter to Avvenire, commented by Marco Tarquinio, Giorgio Parisi: the extreme syntheses betray and the «God hypothesis» transcends science (October 12, 2021)
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Giorgio Parisi
Giorgio Parisi Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (born 1948) is an Italian theoretical physicist, whose research has focused on quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and complex systems. He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Klaus Hasselmann and Syukuro Manabe for groundbreaking contributions to theory of complex systems, in particular "for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales".
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