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This forum address entitled The Road to Wisdom on Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust,

was given on January 27th of 2026 by Francis S. Collins, a renowned physician scientist.

Well, thank you. And good morning, BYU.

It's a real privilege and an honor to be here to be your speaker this morning.

And thank you for that kind introduction, Dr. Collings.

I've been hearing about some of the things going on here which are really exciting

in terms of what this university stands up for

and they were nicely represented in that introduction. Also hearing about the effort to start a medical

school, which will bring together medicine and faith in ways that we need more than ever.

So exciting to see how that shapes up in the course of the coming years. Yeah, I thought I would

talk to you today about this issue of wisdom

and about the pieces that seem to need to play into it

for us to really be traveling on a road that takes us where God wants us to be,

to really have not just knowledge, because knowledge is not sufficient,

but also to have understanding, to have a moral compass,

to have common sense and experience. That really is what wisdom calls us to. And I'll walk through

some of the ideas I have about this, but I'll particularly at the end point out that God has

some really good ideas we can learn from the book of Proverbs and especially

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