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Insanity and Genius : Masks of Madness and the Mapping of Meaning and Value (Second Edition)
ISBN: 9781443860864
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Philosophy;

In his book about the discovery of the structure of DNA, James Watson wrote, So we had lunch, telling ourselves that a structure this beautiful just had to exist. Indeed, the quest most often asked by scientists about a scientific theory is Is it beautiful? Yes, beauty equals truth. Scientists know, mathematicians know. But the beauties, the truths of mathematics and science were not the truths that inspired the author as a child, and he intuitively knew that the truths he needed come fr...