Science and Religion
A member of the United Church of Christ, Townes considers that "science and religion quite parallel, much more similar than most people think and that in the long run, they must converge". In 2005, he was awarded the Templeton Prize for "Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities." Townes is the only figure other than Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama to win both a Templeton Prize and a Nobel Prize.
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