"What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its great mathematical beauty. This is a quality which cannot be defined, any more than beauty in art can be defined, but which people who study mathematics usually have no difficulty in appreciating."

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Source : Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1995). “Sammlung”, p.908, Cambridge University Press

Paul Dirac

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