Tag: Scientist

President Barack Obama has chosen influential genetic scientist Francis Collins to head the National Institutes of Health. Known for helping to unravel the human genetic codes, he is also known for trying to find common ground between belief in God and science and is author of the 2007 best-seller The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.

The late Bernard D. Davis, Adele Lehman Professor at the Harvard Medical School, was a pioneer and a leader in the field of microbial physiology.  Here he explains the assumptions and traditions that underlie the scientific enterprise. His love for science shines through this description of how scientists think and work, how they choose problems, seek answers, deal with ambiguity in experimental results, maintain standards, and understand issues of credit, cooperation, and competition. This paper describes the features of the world of science, and it compares that world briefly with that of politics and the law.  The paper includes broader implications of interactions of government and science.

Biologist Francis S. Collins attempts to bridge the gap between science and religion.