The Science of Why Nature Is Beautiful to Us

Science and art are complementary disciplines. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek, author of A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design,explains how, together, they allow us to explore whether the world embodies beautiful ideas.

What is the world? What is beauty?

People sometimes ask, “What does it all mean?” And that’s a very hard question to address because it’s not clear what an answer would look like. A question that I found much more fruitful, that I think one can a...