
Testimonials
Learn more about how FQxI makes a difference directly from our grantees, Scientific Advisory Council, and Members.
Eric Cavalcanti
Associate Professor
Griffith University
FQxI grants have given me the “excuse” I needed to justify working on topics I am passionate about and have given me a valuable lifeline before obtaining a permanent position. I probably would no longer be in academia were it not for FQxI.
Geoffrey West
Distinguished Professor
Santa Fe Institute
FQxI is an important part of the fundamental physics community, especially regarding expanding the boundaries of what questions can be addressed.
Robert Lawrence Kuhn
Creator, Host, Writer
Closer To Truth
FQxI advances human knowledge as no other organization on earth, daring to gaze with a sharp eye and an open mind over the horizon in physics and cosmology, yet always maintaining highest standards of scientific analysis and integrity.
Closer To Truth (CTT) is proud to have a long relationship with FQxI. Beginning in 2007, CTT has filmed several hundred interviews at FQxI conferences and created over 20 FQxI-derived TV episodes that are broadcast on PBS/public television stations, Closer To Truth website and Closer To Truth YouTube channel. Core topics include: cosmology, multiverse, beginning(s) of the universe, end of the universe, time, information, quantum theory and the observer, even consciousness. Views are in the low millions. FQxI addresses the big questions of existence and fundamental reality, questions that have no boundaries and reflect our common humanity, today needed more than ever.
Jenann Ismael
Professor of Physics
Columbia University
It’s hard to express the difference FQxI’s made–that you nurture and value work on expansive, risky topics. I think it gives courage to a lot of people.
Carlo Rovelli
Professor
Aix-Marseille
FQxI is a fundamental resource in the landscape of contemporary intellectual work in science. Thank you FQxI!
I think that FQxI, it’s a fundamental resource in the landscape of contemporary intellectual work in science. A lot of scientific research today, the very large majority of it, it’s in one way or another oriented toward the technical, or practical, or useful applications, which is very good, but it misses a deep reflection of the foundations. There are very few supporting structures for bringing together the thinkers that think about the depth of the foundations of our current understanding of reality on the basis of what science tells us and I think FQxI is one of the very few, if not almost the unique one that plays this role. I’m extremely grateful that for what it has provided for me, in terms of connection with other people, in terms of resources for doing things, in terms of the fantastic ideas that I’ve seen there developed, taken seriously, discussed, abandoned, or sometimes brought to success. Thank you FQxI!
Mile Gu
Associate Professor
Nanyang Technological University
The FQxI grant has been extremely beneficial in my research in Singapore. FQxI support has allowed me to take on more exciting, fundamental projects, to host a workshop focused on this topic, which helped catalyze student interest. Such pursuits would not be possible in Singapore otherwise, where there is no local funding agency willing to support such upstream, foundational directions of research.
Mind Matters: Intelligence and Agency in the Physical World is one of the most scientifically stimulating workshops I have attended (and very well organized)!

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