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The Denial of Death Featured in the Nobel Prize
The denial of death features heavily in the Nobel Prize because it's like, what outlives a person? Well, science can outlive a person. My father has a theorem named after him. It's still engraved in many places around the world. People know who we are based on our publications. We engrave things. And I think that's, there's something beautiful about that. But there is a notion of denial of death. Like there is a notions of what will outlast me,. especially if you're among the many 90 something percent of members of the National Academy don't believe in an active faith.