Einstein saw a reverence for wonder at the heart of the best of science and religion and the arts. Wondering is a useful way to begin to speak of a shared vocabulary of mystery we might embrace across our disciplines, our contrasting certainties, and our doubts. It is an animating impulse the psychiatrist Robert Coles discerned in the origins of a human lifetime—in childhood—and the origins too of faith. I interviewed him in his book-lined home outside Boston in the early days of my radio adventure, and it grounded all that came later.
