Ekeko is a god of good luck in Peru and the surrounding region.
Photo by Marjorie Manicke.
Many scientists are deeply religious in one way or another, but all of them have a certain rather peculiar faith – they have a faith in the underlying simplicity of nature; a belief that nature is, after all, comprehensible and that one should strive to understand it as much as we can. Now this faith in simplicity, that there are simple rules – a few elementary particles, a few quantum rules to explain the structure of the world – is completely irrational and completely unjustifiable. It is therefore a religion.
Glashow, S. The Quantum Universe, coproduced by WETA-TV and The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (1990)
