Arthur Zajonc is president of the Mind & Life Institute, former director of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, and professor of physics at Amherst College. He is co-author of The Heart and Mind of Education, author of Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry and Catching the Light, co-author of The Quantum Challenge and co-editor of Goethe’s Way of Science. In 1997, he served as scientific coordinator for the Mind and Life dialogue with H.H. the Dalai Lama, which was published as The New Physics and Cosmology: Dialogues with the Dalai Lama.