&gt;“Bode’s law,” formulated in the 18th century, which holds that planets and moons orbit their hosts at predictable mathematical ratios.<p>I think this is a very unclear description of the &quot;Bode&#x27;s law&quot; hypothesis. How does an object orbit another at a ratio? Thankfully Wikipedia provides a much more sensible explanation. (Also, is &quot;host&quot; really a term used by astronomers for orbited celestial bodies? With respect to the Sun, is Earth a &quot;guest,&quot; or maybe a &quot;parasite?&quot;)<p>Perhaps I&#x27;m just picky, but this piece strikes me as rather &quot;fluffy.&quot; Murch shares very little in the way of concrete or actionable thinking. There&#x27;s a lot of praise and little justification for it. Generally speaking I dislike interviews of this sort: even James Lipton doesn&#x27;t stroke the ego quite so much while requiring so little of his guests. There also seems to be a certain desperation here to arrive at the conclusion that the humanities have a meaningful contribution to make toward a scientific or objective understanding of the universe.