In many ways, i think lots of scientists move away from religion. We look for rational explanations that we can understand. For me, i guess it was partly falling between two stools at some point. And i just felt that i wanted to be able to understand the world without getting to the point we said, well, we don't know why that is. No, i want to know why. So i am probably not unusual for many other scientists.

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