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Beauty as a Compass for Truth
the experience of beauty can never be wholly reduced to any set of material constituents. It is something mysterious, prodigal, often unanticipated, even capricious.
David Bentley Hart • The Experience of God
In this book I ask why the mind “tries” to make sense of a new input. Why is there a natural tendency to organize the fresh input to make it fit among past receptions? The answer that comes from physics is one, and it is general: empowering the individual with speed and clarity of thought, understanding, decision making, and movement on the earth’s
... See moreAdrian Bejan • Time And Beauty: Why Time Flies And Beauty Never Dies
On complementarity: Near the end of A Beautiful Question, Wilczek devotes a few pages to complementarity—the idea that no single description of a phenomenon can be complete. The great Danish physicist Niels Bohr introduced complementarity to resolve a problem bedeviling the developers of quantum mechanics in the 1920s: in some cases, it appeared to... See more
Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation
The Nobel laureate particle physicist Frank Wilczek once said that beauty exists as a dance between opposite forces. First, he said, beauty benefits from symmetry, which he defined as “change without change.” If you rotate a circle, it remains a circle, just as reversing the sides of an equation still reveals a truth (2+2=4, and 4=2+2). But beauty ... See more