
Saved by Jay Matthews
Beauty as a Compass for Truth
Saved by Jay Matthews
connection between easy understanding and easily scanned (beautiful) images serves as the physical basis for cognition. Beauty continues to drive and improve cognition. It is precious and indispensable to life and industry, be it art or fashion.
Here, in the vanguard, beyond the borders of knowledge, science becomes even more beautiful—incandescent in the forge of nascent ideas, of intuitions, of attempts. Of roads taken and then abandoned, of enthusiasms. In the effort to imagine what has not yet been imagined.
— Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics