On Influence Of Aesthetic Factors On Scientific Creation

Usually we distinguish science from art strictly,and believe that scientific creation is as dry as dust,there being not aesthetic interest at all,there being aesthetic delight only in artistic creation and appreciation.This is a kind of great misunderstanding.We don't know scientific creation clearly at all.Indeed,there being not only rather rigorous and thorough logical thinking,but also very trivial and meticulous concrete work to do in the course of scientific creation. However,there being not only reason in scientific creation, but also emotion,not only full of hardship,but also filled with aesthetic joy.Therefore,Yang Zhenning said: "Beauty exists in science, and all scientists think so."Just owing to the attraction of scientific beauty, scientists have overcome all kinds of difficulties, even willing to lay down their lives for it.Beauty not only exists in science,but it also plays an important role in scientific creation.As we know,though the objective laws of nature had existed before man came into being,the theories of natural science are created by human beings.Scientific theories reflect the objective laws,but they do not reflect the objective laws passively and mechanically,and they are put forth by human beings according to aesthetic laws.So the process of scientific creation is also that of appreciation of beauty,and creators direct their own research work according to some certain aesthetic criteria and principles,and judge or choose all kinds of hypotheses and theories by means of aesthetic criteria and principles .Aesthetic factors not only seep into the motive force of scientific creation,but also penetrate in conception and expression of scientific theories.Aesthetic principles latently influence the content and the form of scientific positive results.Scanning the scientific history,we will find out that the scientific methods scientists have used when putting forth hypotheses or...