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Aesthetics of science

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are sources of wonder and awe for many scientists, thus motivating scientific pursuit. Conversely, theories that have been empirically successful may be judged to lack aesthetic merit, which contributes to the desire to find a new theory that subsumes the old.
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The topic has been addressed by several publications discussing how aesthetic values are related to scientific experiments and theories.
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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The Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
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A Hubble photo of three gas pillars in the Eagle Nebula. Some squares in the upper-right of the image are black and contain nothing.
Pillars of Creation
Hubble Space Telescope
Eagle Nebula
beauty
scientific endeavour
elegance
symmetry
Aesthetics
Mathematical beauty
"New Pillars of Creation"
Drake, Nadia
"Hubble Revisits an Icon, the Pillars of Creation"
the original
"Beauty and wonder of science boosts researchers' well-being"
doi
10.1038/d41586-022-00762-8
PMID
35301500
S2CID
247520530
"Aesthetic values in science"
doi
10.1111/phc3.12433
ISSN
1747-9991
The Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding
ISBN
978-0-367-14114-1
OCLC

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