Beauty and the quest for beauty in science
JUL 01, 1979
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.”
DOI: 10.1063/1.2995616
The topic to which I have been asked to address myself is a difficult one, if one is to avoid the trivial and the banal. Besides, my knowledge and my experience, such as they are, compel me to limit myself, entirely, to the theoretical aspects of the physical sciences—limitations, most serious. I must, therefore, begin by asking for your patience and your forbearance.
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S. Chandrasekhar, Enrico Fermi Institute of the University of Chicago.
© 1979 American Institute of Physics
