gwern comments on Einstein's Arrogance - Less Wrong
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Many theories have been defended on grounds of beauty - and been wrong. Heliocentrism was an elegant theory that worked well and explained many things like the absence of naked-eye precession. Just before Einstein, we can find examples:
--"A Sense of Crisis: Physics in the fin-de-siècle Era"