Q&A Philip Glass Relativistic composer

摘要

You have written operas on Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler as well as Albert Einstein. Are you drawn to science?Science has been a hobby of mine all my life. I took a college course in mathematics, but realized I didn't have the aptitude for science. But it gave me an appreciation for the skills of the scientist. I see scientists as poets, who interpret the world using mathematics. Their visions are personal. Einstein said he would see and understand something, and then figure out the mathematics. Scientists themselves say that there is an aesthetic element to what they do. I see the world as an event, a beautiful unfolding of natural laws. So aesthetics are not confined to artists. Whether you attribute all this to a divine being, as Kepler and Galileo did, or to laws of nature, it doesn't matter.