It Is A Faith (not Always Justified) Of Theoretical Physics That If Man Proposes What Is Sufficiently Elegant, Nature, Pleased And Flattered, Will Say Yes.

It Is A Faith (not Always Justified) Of Theoretical Physics That If Man Proposes What Is Sufficiently Elegant, Nature, Pleased And Flattered, Will Say Yes.

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It is a faith (not always justified) of theoretical physics that if man
proposes what is sufficiently elegant, nature, pleased and flattered, will
say yes.
-- Leon N. Cooper, Introduction To The Meaning & Structure Of Physics

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