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\nThe Truth About Beauty in Physics\n

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\nThe great physicist Hermann Weyl once said: \"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.\" But is this actually good advice for doing physics?\nThe great physicist Hermann Weyl once said: \"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.\" But is this actually good advice for doing physics?\n
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2020
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ptolemy, symmetry, quantum mechanics, gravity, laws, planets, circles, precision, copernicus, planetary motion
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kepler, weyl, solar system, orbits, newton, universal gravitation, einstein, general relativity, geometric symmetry, physics, mathematical beauty, occam’s razor, dirac, wilcek, maxwell, string theory, complexity, explanatory power, physical law, wave function, hermann weil, considered beautiful, theory, simple, ugly, weil, wrong, beautiful, choose, beauty, idea, sense, field, universe
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