"Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is."
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interview by John L. Allen, Jr. on July 18, 2005, National Catholic Reporter (July 21, 2005)[http://www.natcath.org/mainpage/specialdocuments/cabibbo.htm ]
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Nicola Cabibbo
Nicola Cabibbo (April 10, 1935 – August 16, 2010) was an Italian physicist, best known for work on the weak nuclear interaction. He was also the president of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics from 1983 to 1992, and was the president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences from 1993 until his death.
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