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So she decided to go on the Pill, and that meant leaving the church. Wertheim: So in 1964, after the birth of her sixth child, she decided that even God couldn’t want her to have any more children so quickly. And to show you how strictly, she had six children in five-and-a-half years. My mother was raised a very, very strict Catholic. But also that your mother was such an important presence and that she communicated Catholicism but much else that one might call spiritual formation.
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And it seems to me, from reading about you, that you were raised Catholic. Tippett: Margaret, I always start my conversations by wondering about the spiritual background of someone’s early life. Tippett: I interviewed Margaret Wertheim in January of 2015 before an audience at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. I’m Krista Tippett, and this is On Being. Her Institute For Figuring in Los Angeles reveals beautiful, visceral connections - connections you can play with - between high mathematics, crochet and other folk arts, and our love of the planet. She’s also wise and provocative in equal measure about the limits of science to tell the whole story of the human self. Tippett: Margaret Wertheim became a science writer in order to translate the thrill of scientific questioning across human history and culture and its relevance for all of us. But they don’t explain the questions and why the questions matter. And so I thought, “Well, what’s the problem here?” The problem with most books about physics is that they tell you the answers, and they focus on the answers. I just don’t have that kind of a mind.” And I don’t believe this. Wertheim: “Can you tell me a book about physics that I can actually understand?” And I think what happens is that people buy one, they can’t get past chapter one, and then they feel, “Oh, physics isn’t for me. I bought this book A Brief History of Time, and I can’t get past chapter one.” Margaret Wertheim: People kept coming up to me at dinner parties and saying, “Margaret, you’re studying physics.