In modern people’s mind, science like fundament physics and spirituality (or mysticism) like the Bible are contradictory to each other. From my experience of interacting with my physicist friends and colleagues here in Japan, I think this perception is correct. At least, most physicists aren’t interested in spirituality.

However, there is a very crucial exception. When studying Newtonian physics in high school, I was not satisfied with learning just from the textbook and went on browsing through Newton’s Principia. I was shocked when reading an essay, known as General Scholium, attached to respond some of the criticism to the first edition. There is a whole paragraph saying that one of the purpose of Principia is understanding Lord God: