Truth and beauty: aesthetics and motivations in science

Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1987)
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"Sir Hermann Bondi, NatureThe late S. Chandrasekhar was best known for his discovery of the upper limit to the mass of a white dwarf star, for which he received ...

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