The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.
Poetry
The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.
Thought
If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress.
Beauty, Physics
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