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Frank Wilczek — Beauty as a Compass for Truth

On Being with Krista Tippett

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All Colors Are One Thing

i wonder if you ditisis kind of bring us in a little bit to this way of seeing. You talk about how newton had described each spectral color as distinct, yes. But in the next chapter of physics, there was this discovery of a deep unity beneath and ing the diversity of appearance. And that is science's brilliantly poetic answer to keats's complaint that science unweaves a rainbow. So really, the existence of one implies the existence of all the others....

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