"Three principles — the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the "unreasonable effectiveness" of certain parts of mathematics in describing physical reality — are thus consequences of the underlying law of the elementary particles and their interactions. Those three principles need not be assumed as separate metaphysical postulates. Instead, they are emergent properties of the fundamental laws of physics."
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TED talk on beauty and truth in physics —video timecode 14m28s (March 2007).
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Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann (15 September 1929 – 24 May 2019) was an American theoretical physicist who played a preeminent role in the development of the theory of elementary particles, for which he received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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