It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to … - Steven Weinberg

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Steven Weinberg

It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by logical deduction, but by something like a sense of smell.

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This is often the way it is in physics - our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough. It is always hard to realize that these numbers and equations we play with at our desks have something to do with the real world. Even worse, there often seems to be a general agreement that certain phenomena are just not fit subjects for respectable theoretical and experimental effort.

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It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.

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