Stanley Jaki

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Stanley L. Jaki
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Stanley L. Jaki

South Orange, New Jersey
.

He held doctorates in theology and in physics and was a leading contributor to the

Georges Lemaitre.[3]

Studies

After completing undergraduate training in philosophy, theology and mathematics, Jaki did graduate work in theology and physics and gained doctorates in theology from the

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
.

Research

Jaki authored more than two dozen books on the relation between modern science and

Edinburgh University in 1974–1975 and 1975–1976. In 1987, he was awarded the Templeton Prize
for furthering understanding of science and religion.

He was among the first to claim that

inconsistent
. Since any 'theory of everything' must be consistent, it also must be incomplete.

It is on the ultimate success of such a quest [for a TOE] that Gödel's theorem casts the shadow of judicious doubt. It seems on the strength of Gödel's theorem that the ultimate foundations of the bold symbolic constructions of mathematical physics will remain embedded forever in that deeper level of thinking characterized both by the wisdom and by the haziness of analogies and intuitions. For the speculative physicist this implies that there are limits to the precision of certainty, that even in the pure thinking of theoretical physics there is a boundary present, as in all other fields of speculations.

— Jaki, S.L., The Relevance of Physics, 1966. Chicago Press. p. 129.

Death

Jaki died in Madrid following a heart attack. He was in Spain visiting friends, on his way back to the United States after delivering lectures in Rome, for the Master in Faith and Science of the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum.[5]

Bibliography

See also

  • List of Christian thinkers in science
  • List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics

References

  1. ^ Weber, Bruce (April 12, 2009). "The Rev. Stanley L. Jaki, Physicist and Theologian, Dies at 84". The New York Times. Retrieved April 13, 2009.
  2. ^ "Death of Rev. Stanley Jaki - News & Events - Seton Hall University". Archived from the original on 2009-04-11. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
  3. ^ "Professor Named One of Five Catholic Scientists that 'Shaped our Understanding of the World' - Seton Hall University". www.shu.edu. June 2018. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  4. ^ Cf. Jaki's "A Late Awakening to Gödel in Physics"
  5. ^ Death of Rev. Stanley L. Jaki, O.S.B. Archived 2009-04-11 at the Wayback Machine
  6. Flatté, Stanley M. (March 1968). "Review: Symmetries and Reflections by Eugene P. Wigner and The Relevance of Physics by Stanley Jacki"
    . Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: 28–30.

External links
  • "No Other Options". Stanely L. Jaki. JASA 24 (September 1972): 127. (Response to R.H.Bube's commentary.)
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