Today’s New York Times has an op-ed by Tenzin Gyatso, who happens to be the 14th Dalai Lama:

SCIENCE has always fascinated me. As a child in Tibet, I was keenly curious about how things worked. When I got a toy I would play with it a bit, then take it apart to see how it was put together. As I became older, I applied the same scrutiny to a movie projector and an antique automobile…

Cross-Posted at Julien’s List.