This is a rebroadcast of an interview that originally aired on July 22,2015.
The hallmarks of the universe embody symmetry, harmony, and balance,proportion, and economy, and which is at the heart of what we find aesthetically pleasing and inspiring. In A glowing Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design,Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek argues that beauty has been the heart of scientific pursuit from Pythagoras to Galileo, Newton, or Maxwell,and Einstein.
Source: wnyc.org