88. Beautiful Science
Undeceptions with John Dickson
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The Importance of Beauty in Science
The Judeo-Christian way of thinking about the world provided the conditions, the necessary conditions, for the passionate study of the natural world. Pagan religion from Babylonia to Egypt to Gaul to England in antiquity insisted on a capricious, unruly world. Science depends on mathematical elegance and rational order built into the structure of the physical universe. The belief that the world is not only rational and therefore explicable, but it's also profoundly good, beautiful, a work of art.
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