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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.