Dirac said something closely related to this: "... it is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment. ... It seems that i

Dirac said something closely related to this: "... it is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment. ... It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress." http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-evolution-of-the-physicists-picture-of-nature/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-evolution...