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The Role of Religion in Science
I saw very clear connections between beauty and justice. And what is that beautiful ideal? And it's seldom mentioned in the sociological literature, but I found a lot of evidence for it in reading speeches of Martin Luther King or the diaries of Gandhi and Dorothy Day. We did these interviews, 600 and something interviews with scientists in eight countries. They're telling us all these sacrifices they made for their work. It was not a criterion of worth that I imagined scientists would use. The question kept coming up so much that I wanted to know what this meant.