Science is being commoditized. Industrialized discovery > novel insight. That's why "science the shit out of this" line works in The Martian
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Maybe Feynman vs. Schwinger was where aesthetics started becoming optional extra. With enough compute+data, science can afford to be ugly.
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When I was younger, I was enamored of Gell-Mann idea that science is necessarily beautiful. I'm no longer so sure.
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@jamesmcn now you're just trolling. Elegance vs inelegance is orthogonal to science versus engineering. - 3 more replies
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