This new book of Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek is high on my reading list.

If I am not mistaken Wilczek explores in this book how scientists through history have been inspired by the idea of beauty and how beauty itself can also be considered an organizing principle in the universe.

I am particularly interested to know if and how Wilczek makes a distinction in the book between Nature’s Deep Design and the among scientists controversial idea of intelligent design.

According to a review in the Financial Times A Beautiful Question is not an easy book to read, especially the chapters where Wilczek explores the interesting topic of “Quantum Beauty”.

Quantum theory may be too complex for general readers like myself, but the awe inspiring beauty of Nature is of course very obvious and can easily be experienced by everybody, not just by scientists.