Science and art often seem to develop in separate silos, but many thinkers are inspired by both. Novelist Cormac McCarthy, filmmaker Werner Herzog, and physicist Lawrence Krauss discuss science as inspiration for art and Herzog’s new film on the earliest known cave paintings.
Segment Guests
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy is author of The Road (Knopf, 2006) and All the Pretty Horses (Knopf, 1992). He is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog is the director of Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010). He is based in Los Angeles, California.
Lawrence Krauss
Lawrence Krauss is director and foundation professor at The ASU Origins Project at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. His latest book is The Greatest Story Ever Told–So Far. Why Are We Here? (Atria Books, 2017).