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[Unedited] John Polkinghorne with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Eladine Religion and Beauty

I think I'd like to ask you about a few other words that you use, concepts. And another one is beauty. How do you think of that as a scientist and a theologian, has that worked together? Well, beauty is a very interesting thing. And a form of beauty that is important to me is mathematical beauty. That's a rather austere form of aesthetic pleasure. But it means something like economy and elegance - what the mathematicians call being deep. We found in theoretical physics that the fundamental laws of nature are always mathematically beautiful. In fact, if you've got some ugly equations, almost certainly you haven't got it right,. So beauty is the key to unlocking

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