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Wow, there we have it! Thanks for that! Many twentieth century physicists believed in a universe that was in some sense spiritual rather than material. Schrodinger, Heisenberg, De Broglie, Pauli, Eddison, Plank, etc, etc. As with Piaget, the evidence is there for those want to read it. By the way Maria, I didn't mean to patronise "believers" in relation to transpersonalists. Actually many of the world's great scientists have been and are theists, who believed in a full blown Judaic-Christian styled creator, and not just transpersonalists. You're right. Einstein was pushed to this conclusion by the curvature of past spacetime geodesics back towards an inevitable beginning, and hence a creator. The Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem has recently shown that something similar holds for all known physics, across the geodesics that fit the string multiverse, the eternal inflation models, the ekpyrotic models, and other things (I'm writing a book on this at the moment actually Maria, send me a personal email if you want to share thoughts.) However, Piaget was not a believer in the sense of a personal creator God for long. Neither were all of those i mention above: many of them were better described as transpersonalists than theists. But other scientists certainly have been/are theistic "believers" despite or even because of their science. (As well as a larger number of scientists who have been pure materiists, since about Darwin's time, as Michael rightly points out.)