If you haven't already, take a look at Bill Thurston's paper "On proof and progress in mathematics" http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9404236 http://arxiv.org/abs/math

If you haven't already, take a look at Bill Thurston's paper "On proof and progress in mathematics" http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9404236 http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9404236 Your comment could very well be its abstract.