Humanity's search for cosmic truth and poetic beauty

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Humanity's search for cosmic truth and poetic beauty | Maria Popova

TED Talks Science and Medicine

7 minutes 15 seconds

3 years ago

Humanity's search for cosmic truth and poetic beauty | Maria Popova

Linking together the histories of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Edwin Hubble and Tracy K. Smith, poet and thinker Maria Popova crafts an astonishing story of how humanity came to see the edge of the observable universe. (Followed by an animated excerpt of "My God, It's Full of Stars," by Tracy K. Smith)