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Of thehe jewish religion, and physics and astrophysics, and thinking about the universe. and he often liked to quote einstein, with one in the same with nature, how miraculous it is that we live in the universe for all of the physical laws allow life to exist and allow us to come about, to think, to have consciousness, that if one does not have some kind of reverence for that, then you're missing something.th >> bret: he obviously passed that on, the reverence on to y you. >> i have had my own religious journey to a degree. not just similar to my dad, i grew up more religious household. he wan...

In the book, he really gets into the nature of what liberal democracy means, and why that is leading america flourish. >> "let us begin on thanksgiving by giving things that we are not french. and i say this was no malice. i mean it this way. we both had glorious, liberating revolutions. but ours was not cursed by excessive rationalism. nor by its twin, hatred of religion. the american revolution repatriated liberty, and established a new political order. but it's ambition stopped there. it left the weekend alone." >> he is very clear eyed, he sees threats to democracy, to america, to our prom...

And when we got the final prognosis, it was only a few weeks that we had. and he entrusted it to me to finish for him. and the last thing he said to me about it, don't publish it if it is not worthy. and i took that to heart in a way that is more important to me than anything. >> bret: he chose most of the pieces. you chose some too. >> he put together most of the pieces that are in the book now. but i also read through quite literally everything he ever wrote. and also speeches, transcripts, interviews, and found some very important pieces that i filled in with some important profound areas t...

And all-encompassing." >> bret: you really like the way that he ended pieces, why? >> he has a way of drawing you logically to the end of his argument, but then he steps back ar a minute and leaves you with an uncertainty to ponder, whether it is bioethics, or the nature of the universe and god and space, that there are mysteries that we do not to know now, and we may never know. and that may be the definingha part of what it means to be human. my father has now made the step into the greatest unknown of them all. he did not know what laid ahead for him, nor did he pretend to know, and neither...

Was nice, and then when he was one, i wrote one on his first birthday. and then i realized i am never going to do this again. this is using him, this is going to be his vision of his self through my eyes. and i simply won't do it. so rather than a reference to him here or there, i never wrote about them again, ever. two things in 28 years. i'm not a touchy, feeley guy. that's probably why i quit psychiatry. if you are not in the feelings and emotions and all the back story, then you ought to be doing something else. >> bret: you see that we had to cut the camera in the middle, hbecause he did ...