Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science

Science as Climbing Mount Everest

The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us can hope, even in imagination, to scale the Everest and reach its summit when the sky is blue and the air is still, and in the stillness of the air survey the entire Himalayan range in the dazzling…

Jan 30, 2012 1 1

• metaphor
• science