One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve … - Murray Gell-Mann

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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Murray Gell-Mann

One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve the theory, is that. . . a chief criterion for the selection of a correct hypothesis. . . seems to be the criterion of beauty, simplicity, or elegance.

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