ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a series of examples of ways in which scientific humans find beauty everywhere. Symmetry is one of the more obvious examples of how aesthetics can inform scientific understanding, and in fact the one that seems to spring most often, most immediately to mind when the involvement of aesthetic thinking in science is discussed. The kind of imagination and selection of a most fitting solution, and appreciation of its beauty, which seems to be so important in mathematics, is no less important in the molecular sciences. In terms of game playing, cell biologists, like physicists and chemists, are working towards a new synthesis, a new understanding, a neatening-up of reality that satisfies. The 'systems biology' movement is now morphing into the field known as 'Big Data', where statistical analysis is as key as it was for the genetic information.
