There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
Our first intuitions are the true ones.
Most intuitive ideas have to be clarified, so there is a trial and error process.
I'm not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and that has really changed the life of my work - I found a way to trick myself into being intuitive.
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
Intuition is reason in a hurry.
It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.
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