"I do know that chosen models dictate our parsing of nature, and either channel our thoughts toward novel insight, or blind us to evident and important aspects of reality. Beauty must be in the eye of the beholder, but access to truth lies within the mind of the beholder--and our minds are as varied as our hairstyles. "Great is truth, and shall prevail"--but we only get there along pathways of our own mental construction. Science is as resolutely personal an enterprise as art, even if the chief prize be truth rather than beauty (though artists also seek truth, and good science is profoundly beautiful)."

Dinosaur in a Haystack, p 96.