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Is truth really beauty after all?

Book review: physicist Frank Wilczek seeks the ultimate truth of a rational universe

8 August 2015

9:00 AM

8 August 2015

9:00 AM

A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design Frank Wilczek

Penguin, pp.448, £20, ISBN: 9781594205262

Mediterranean crockery has a lot to answer for. It famously spoke thus to John Keats: ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.’ Well, even if true, it’s obviously not all one needs to know. But then Keats was never one for irritable reaching after fact and reason.

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