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Einstein’s guiding principle: “Is this beautiful?”

August 14, 2020

Many scholars have noted how Einstein sought beauty in his theoretical work.

“As soon as an equation seemed to him to be ugly, [Einstein] really rather lost interest in it and could not understand why somebody else was willing to spend much time on it. He was quite convinced that beauty was a guiding principle in the search for important results in theoretical physics.” ~ Hermann Bondi, Einstein’s colleague

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