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It Is Quite Clear That Beauty Does Depend On One's Culture And Upbringing For Certain Kinds Of Beauty, Pictures, Literature, Poetry And So On...but Mathematical Beauty Is Of A Rather Different Kind. I Should Say Perhaps It Is Of A Completely Different Kind And Transcends These Personal Factors. It Is The Same In All Countries And At All Periods Of Time.

A Physical Law Must Possess Mathematical Beauty.

There Is In My Opinion A Great Similarity Between The Problems Provided By The Mysterious Behavior Of The Atom And Those Provided By The Present Economic Paradoxes Confronting The World.

The Research Worker, In His Efforts To Express The Fundamental Laws Of Nature In Mathematical Form, Should Strive Mainly For Mathematical Beauty. He Should Take Simplicity Into Consideration In A Subordinate Way To Beauty ... It Often Happens That The Requirements Of Simplicity And Beauty Are The Same, But Where They Clash, The Latter Must Take Precedence.

The Underlying Physical Laws Necessary For The Mathematical Theory Of A Large Part Of Physics And The Whole Of Chemistry Are Thus Completely Known, And The Difficulty Is Only That The Exact Application Of These Laws Leads To Equations Much Too Complicated To Be Soluble. It Therefore Becomes Desirable That Approximate Practical Methods Of Applying Quantum Mechanics Should Be Developed, Which Can Lead To An Explanation Of The Main Features Of Complex Atomic Systems Without Too Much Computation.