If a True Formula = Beautiful, Does a Beautiful Story = Formula?
Several years ago I attended Socrates in The City, a literary salon hosted by author Eric Metaxas (Bonhoeffer, Amazing Grace) and featuring many great Christian thinkers. The guest that evening was Rev. John Polkinghorne, a British theologian and physicist who was knighted for his role in discovering the quark. Talk about physics and my eyes glaze over, but Polkinghorne said something that stuck with me: When an equation is correct, mathematicians call it ‘beautiful.’ A…
