http://www.humphrey.org.uk/papers/1973IllusionOfBeauty.pdf

The illusion of beauty

    “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” to the poet. But a biologist is bound, I think, to regard beauty–at least man-made beauty–as something closer to a lie. A lie, admittedly, of a unique kind, but a kind to which both men and animals are specially vulnerable.
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