If you look to somebody purely based on their knowledge,

they'll never be a person who knows more than the internet,

than the most powerful supercomputer.

But what's really lacking is wisdom,

and there's really no substitute for kind of really out on because they focus so much on their knowledge acquisition rather than wisdom

acquisition and the meaning of what they do rather than the value of what they do. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Open the pod bay doors now.

Brian, thank you so much for joining me.

It's a pleasure to be with you, George.

I'm a long time subscriber and fan.

So I actually looked up your podcast before doing this interview and it turns out you address

basically all of my favorite topics, loop quantum gravity, hypotheses for God, so

and it looked like you were kind of a hoot so I was excited to start this interview.

Thank you. Yeah, I pride myself on diversity in the most important ways possible.

Something you discussed in your video that I'd like to start with is you talked about how science can create knowledge but it can't create wisdom and it reminds me of the phrase

science describes but it doesn't prescribe. So can you for the audience do a little example

to kind of show what you mean by science creates knowledge

but it doesn't create wisdom?

Yeah, I think, you know, it's really nowhere better illustrated than if you look at the lives of the greatest scientist of the past hundred years.

These are typically men, although thankfully it is getting more common to see women rising to the ranks of Nobel laureates.

However, some of the most famous Nobel laureates in history had some of the most odious opinions about policy towards racial minorities towards women and in many respects

it's it's really kind of shameful that we venerate these people for their

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