钱德拉塞卡在他的演讲里说:跟艺术一样,科学也有审美判据。我们在科学理论里寻求体现部分与部分、部分与全部的一致性,同时显现不曾为人所知的尺度 - Science, like the arts, admits aesthetic criteria; we seek theories that display "a proper conformity of the parts to one another and to the whole" while still showing "some strangeness in their proportion."
这两个判据一个来自培根:There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. 另一个来自海森堡:Beauty is the proper conformity of the parts to one another and to the whole.