ABSTRACT
Bernstein, Jeremy In science as in the arts, sound aesthetic judgments are usually arrived at only in retrospect. A really new art form or scientific idea is almost certain at first to appear ugly. The obviously beautiful, in both science and the arts, is more often than not an extension of the familiar. It is sometimes only with the passage of time that a really new idea begins to seem beautiful. As has been said, “Pioneers occupy new land. Only later, one comes to understand that the cabins they built were really cathedrals.”
