Is Science Doomed to Leave Some Questions Unanswered?

“As a science journalist, I’ve been to countless science conferences over the years where I’d hear about the latest discoveries or a plug for a new telescope or particle accelerator destined to yield fresh insights into the workings of nature. But last week I found myself in a small but elegant auditorium at Dartmouth College for a different kind of meeting. Scientists and philosophers had gathered not to celebrate research accomplishments but to argue that science itself is inadequate. As successful as it has undeniably been, they say it cannot provide all the answers we seek.”

Science journalist Dan Falk reports in Scientific American on the debate between physicists and philosophers about the limits of science and whether we will ever solve certain mysteries of the universe and the human mind.

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