OT: Beauty of science [Bioanalytics]

posted by d_labes  – Berlin, Germany, 2017-02-24 14:17 (2610 d 22:08 ago) – Posting: # 17108
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Dear Helmut,

❝ ... 2. Looking pretty is not a scientific category.


Some people, among them really famous ones, have here another point of view. For instance:
"It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment..." :cool:
Paul Dirac, paper on Magnetic Monopoles (1931)
(for more context see here or here)

Regards,

Detlew

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