Last week’s Panel Discussion on Stem Cell Culture: Biomedical Research, Popular Culture and Art was a great success with more than 250 guests in attendance. For those who missed it, please have a look at the terrific coverage in the Hamilton Spectator article.

At the close of the panel discussion, McMaster Professor (Emeritus) Patangi Rangachari read a verse from W.H. Auden’s poem After Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics — a selection that seemed to be perfect for the occasion:

This passion of our kind
For the process of finding out
Is a fact one can hardly doubt,
But I would rejoice in it more
If I knew more clearly what
We wanted the knowledge for,
Felt certain still that the mind
Is free to know or not.