Here's a fascinating article from New Scientist that explains the 2009 Templeton Prize winner. The French physicist and philosopher of science, Bernard d'Espagnat, has won this year's award for his studies in quantum mechanics. In essence:
"Unlike classical physics, d'Espagnat explained, quantum mechanics cannot describe the world as it really is, it can merely make predictions for the outcomes of our observations. If we want to believe, as Einstein did, that there is a reality independent of our observations, then this reality can either be knowable, unknowable or veiled. D'Espagnat subscribes to the third view. Through science, he says, we can glimpse some basic structures of the reality beneath the veil, but much of it remains an infinite, eternal mystery."