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Frank Wilczek — Why Is the World So Beautiful?

On Being with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
Episode • Jun 14, 2018

Frank Wilczek — Why Is the World So Beautiful?

Nobel physicist Frank Wilczek sees beauty as a compass for truth, discovery, and meaning. His book “A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design” is a long meditation on the question: “Does the world embody beautiful ideas?” He’s the unusual scientist willing to analogize his discoveries about the deep structure of reality with deep meaning in the human everyday. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.