Testimonials

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)!

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.

Joshua Deutsch

Professor of Physics

UC Santa Cruz

FQxI has had an impact on science that vastly exceeds its size and resources.

From my perspective, FQxI has had an impact on science that vastly exceeds its size and resources. Its funding model distinguishes itself from more traditional sources, by selecting high quality proposals that emphasize originality and creativity. Their approach is far more likely to lead to real advances than, say, the U.S.’s NSF and NIH, where it is widely acknowledged that new and innovative submissions get squelched, all too often. Their grant calls are well chosen to be in broad areas which are of fundamental importance, and not part of some fleeting trend. They get applications from a wide range of researchers in science, philosophy, and history. Lastly, its highly original meetings have had an enormous influence on my thinking, and many other researchers, in ways that are very significant.

Jeremy Butterfield

Doctor

University of Cambridge

For philosophy, which aims to give the big picture about humans and their place in nature, fundamental science is a gold-mine. FQxI has played a unique, and indispensable role, in breaking down the traditional disciplinary boundaries between science and philosophy. Long may it continue to do so!

Over the past 16 years, FQxI has been very successful in bringing together science, especially physics, and philosophy. That endeavour is invaluable. For fundamental science, in particular physics, has yielded extraordinary insights in to nature, and has shown human ingenuity, both conceptual and experimental, at its best. So for philosophy, which aims to give the big picture about humans and their place in nature, fundamental science is a gold-mine. And FQxI has played a unique, and indispensable role, in breaking down the traditional disciplinary boundaries between science and philosophy. Long may it continue to do so!