Couldn't sleep...and so very early this morning I saw a glorious full moon.
I listen to Frank Wilczek being interview on On Being. It was a random choice, picked when I caught "beauty" and "compass" in the title. Half asleep I heard:
That’s what I think may be the most poetic way of stating this conclusion that the world, in large part, does embody beautiful ideas; that if you regard the world as a work of art — first of all, it helps you understand things, and secondly, it’s a pretty good work of art. It has tremendous beauty. It has tremendous creative power in using a few principles to make elaborate structures. Yeah, it’s a wonderful thing.