The Relationship Between Beauty and Truth

Physicists often rank theories by how beautiful they seem to be, but there's no evidence this works. Peter Voigt and Lee Smolin are among the critics of beauty as a reliable guide for truth in physics. The debate is just what we do with all the theories that we haven't been able to test yet,. And if you want to take a neutral view, it doesn't matter which theory isn't true; every scientist I've ever met agrees about these things.