Frank Wilczek — Beauty as a Compass for Truth

<p>“Having tasted beauty at the heart of the world, we hunger for more.” These are words from Nobel physicist Frank Wilczek in his book, <i>A Beautiful Question</i>. It’s a winsome, joyful meditation on the question: Do cosmic realities embody beautiful ideas? — probing the world, by way of science, as a work of art. He reminds us that time and space, mystery and order, are so much stranger and more generous than we can comprehend. He’s now written a wonderful new book, <i>Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality.</i></p><p>Frank Wilczek is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2004, he received the Nobel Prize in physics. His books include <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/a-beautiful-question-finding-nature-s-deep-design/9780143109365"><i>A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design</i></a> and <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/the-lightness-of-being-mass-ether-and-the-unification-of-forces/9780465018956"><i>The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces</i></a>. His new book is <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/fundamentals-ten-keys-to-reality/9780735223790"><i>Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality</i></a>.</p><p><a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/frank-wilczek-beauty-as-a-compass-for-truth/#transcript">Find the transcript</a> for this show at onbeing.org.</p><p>This show originally aired June 14, 2018.</p><p> </p>