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Frank Wilczek — Beauty as a Compass for Truth

On Being with Krista Tippett

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I Think It's Woolly if You're Using It Simplicically and Superficially Exactly

The quest for meaning, or these questions of meaning, that helped draw you into science. George dyson said somethin looking at your book, that you're kind of in the lineage of natural philosophy that was before what we now just call science. Ye, we i think it's a, it has dangers. I mean, yes, it has dangers of woolly think and wishful thinking and a denial of facts that you don't like. But i think it's throwing out the baby with the bathwater not to realize that that's really a central element of human life....

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