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Do not mix truth and beauty

We humans are tempted to equate beauty with truth. If something is beautiful, we reason, then it’s more than likely true, right? Wrong. Dr. Sollereder makes a solid argument that beauty is not a reliable indicator for truth. She writes, 💬 Historically, many beautiful, simple, and elegant ideas in science were wrong. Johannes Kepler thought the orbital distance of the six (known) planets were related to the Platonic solids. It is a lovely, attractive idea, but wrong.…