Too good to be true

John Maynard Smith
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John Maynard Smith: School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex

Nature, 1999, vol. 400, issue 6741, 223-223

Abstract: Abstract Many a scientist has been seduced by an elegant idea, only to find that aesthetics are not always a good guide to a theory's accuracy. Of all the beautiful theories slain by ugly facts, which most deserved to be right?

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1038/22238

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