d'Espagnat blasts Templeton Foundation

[Faent]

d'Espagnat wins Templeton Prize, has this to say:


I feel myself deeply in accordance with the Templeton Foundation's great, guiding idea that science does shed light [on spirituality]. In my view it does so mainly by rendering unbelievable an intellectual construction claiming to yield access to the ultimate ground of things with the sole use of the simple, somewhat trivial notions everybody has.

Nice. (But also false.)

[Methais]

What?

[Parkbandit]

What?

I think it's Faent's way of saying his paper still isn't published by that FUCKING NO GOOD EDITOR WHO WOULDN"T KNOW A GOOD PAPER IF IT SLAPPED HIM IN THE FACE! THIS IS A FUCKING OUTRAGE! AN OUTRAGE! THEY WILL NOT EXTINGUISH MY VOICE! NEVER! THEY WILL REGRET THIS INJUSTICE WHEN I BECOME A WORLD FAMOUS AUTHOR!!! I SWEAR!!

[Faent]

I think it's Faent's way of saying his paper still isn't published by that FUCKING NO GOOD EDITOR WHO WOULDN"T KNOW A GOOD PAPER IF IT SLAPPED HIM IN THE FACE! THIS IS A FUCKING OUTRAGE! AN OUTRAGE! THEY WILL NOT EXTINGUISH MY VOICE! NEVER! THEY WILL REGRET THIS INJUSTICE WHEN I BECOME A WORLD FAMOUS AUTHOR!!! I SWEAR!!

The stupid. It burns.

[Methais]

I think it's Faent's way of saying his paper still isn't published by that FUCKING NO GOOD EDITOR WHO WOULDN"T KNOW A GOOD PAPER IF IT SLAPPED HIM IN THE FACE! THIS IS A FUCKING OUTRAGE! AN OUTRAGE! THEY WILL NOT EXTINGUISH MY VOICE! NEVER! THEY WILL REGRET THIS INJUSTICE WHEN I BECOME A WORLD FAMOUS AUTHOR!!! I SWEAR!!

What?

[phantasm]

Science has finally proven that it can never unveil the ultimate reality. Thus, leaving a wide open space for the existence of the supernatural and spiritual as the only means to understand the ultimate reality.

[Faent]

What's amusing here is that the Templeton Foundation is a religious organization. They just gave this guy well over 1 million dollars. He then takes their money and immediately insults their religious beliefs.