When poets and physicists agree on something, there is a good chance that they share a significant insight. As a part of our Great Books discussions for the Angelicum High School Academy, we read ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The mathematician Hermann Weyl who made many ...

John Keats wrote that "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all/ Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." But is that all we really need to know? Two new books of scholarship take us back to ...

Professor, music historian and composer Robert Greenberg once received a letter from a musician urging him to give up the traditional and classical repertoire in favor of more modern music. The ...

Already Plato saw that beauty may blind viewers and seduce them to believe in the goodness of people and things that are beautiful. Source: Source: Leonieke Aalders (Wikimedia; Creative Commons) ...

Joel Tiu Maquiling’s essay is a welcome act of intellectual ambition. In a media landscape of grief charts and motivational bromides, his use of quantum mechanics as a metaphor for psychological ...

This is an opinion editorial by Tomer Strolight, editor-in-chief of Swan Bitcoin and author of “Why Bitcoin.” I dropped into a Twitter Spaces the other afternoon focused on Bitcoin. In it were at ...

• Can you find beauty in this image/story? • Can you find truth in this image/story? • How might beauty reveal truth? • How might beauty conceal truth? Purpose: What kind of thinking does this routine ...

Andrew Klavan is a bestselling novelist, screenwriter, and City Journal contributing editor. Associate editor Daniel Kennelly spoke with him about his latest book, The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives ...

The great physicist Hermann Weyl once said: "My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful." But is this actually ...