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• It is a faith (not always justified) of theoretical physics that if man proposes what is sufficiently elegant, nature, pleased and flattered, will say yes.
  -- Leon N. Cooper, Introduction To The Meaning & Structure Of Physic...
• Science is a history of superseded theories.
• It's so elegant that it's wrong.
• The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture. -- Elbert Hubbard
• Scientific theories are judged by the coherence they lend to our natural experience and the simplicity with which they do so.
  The grand principle of the heavens balances on the razor's edge of truth....
• Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. -- Edith Hamilto