Beauty and the quest for beauty in science

Chandrasekhar, S. (1979) Beauty and the quest for beauty in science Physics Today, 32 (7). pp. 25-30. ISSN 0031-9228

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Abstract

Science, like the arts, admits aesthetic criteria; we seek theories that display "a proper conformity of the parts to one another and to the whole" while still showing "some strangeness in their proportion".

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