Dr. Collins is a former director of the National Institutes of Health and the author of “The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust,” from which this essay is adapted. See more of our ...

Just as America roils and frets over the election of a divisive and power-hungry president, a new book charts a path back to civility and commonality of interests. The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, ...

Editor's note: This essay was originally published in Discourse magazine. We are supposed to live in a post-truth world—I have said so myself, and more than once. What does that mean? Basically, that ...

Dr. Francis Collins has been at the forefront of the world’s most advanced biomedical research. He led the Human Genome Project and was the longest-serving director of the National Institutes of ...

We are supposed to live in a post-truth world — I have said so myself, and more than once. What does that mean? Basically, that trust in our interpreters of truth — the elites, the mediating class, ...

Pope Leo XIV, in a message to participants of an international bioethics conference, issued a call for scientists to ‘contribute to the search for truth, so that science may remain at the service of ...

Science and law are both relatively recent human creations. Applied science made its appearance well before its written version. The people of the British Isles erected Stonehenge, and the Egyptians ...

In the wake of administrative upheaval for federal health and safety departments, former National Institutes of Health director and geneticist Francis Collins is coming to Spokane to discuss the ...

Pope Leo XIV said the principal threat facing both religion and science today is the denial of the existence of objective truth. He made this statement on May 11 during an audience granted to members ...

Throughout history, humans have been on a search for truth. From the ancient Greeks and their belief in a universal truth, to our Founding Fathers writing, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, ...

With all the talk recently about the role of science in responding effectively to the pandemic, what gets lost sometimes is the degree to which reason and faith, or science and spirituality, actually ...