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What Is Especially Striking And Remarkable Is That In Fundamental Physics A Beautiful Or Elegant Theory Is More Likely To Be Right Than A Theory That Is Inelegant.

My Colleagues In Elementary Particle Theory In Many Lands [and I] Are Driven By The Usual Insatiable Curiosity Of The Scientist, And Our Work Is A Delightful Game. I Am Frequently Astonished That It So Often Results In Correct Predictions Of Experimental Results. How Can It Be That Writing Down A Few Simple And Elegant Formulae, Like Short Poems Governed By Strict Rules Such As Those Of The Sonnet Or The Waka, Can Predict Universal Regularities Of Nature?

The Persistence Of Erroneous Beliefs Exacerbates The Widespread Anachronistic Failure To Recognize The Urgent Problems That Face Humanity On This Planet.

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Of Course The Word Chaos Is Used In Rather A Vague Sense By A Lot Of Writers, But In Physics It Means A Particular Phenomenon, Namely That In A Nonlinear System The Outcome Is Often Indefinitely, Arbitrarily Sensitive To Tiny Changes In The Initial Condition