In the next couple of posts, I will highlight some of the themes from our panel discussion on Beauty in Science held at the University of Oxford in July 2022. Watch the videos linked below for the full presentations, which are only about 10 mins each and go into more detail than I cover in this post.
Truth and Beauty in Physics and Biology
When a theory turns out to be successful, scientists inadvertently adopt its aesthetic properties as heuristics – shortcuts which are used to predict the success of future theories.
