It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
If I think something is beautiful, there must be somebody out there who will agree with me.
Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.
To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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