Rather than recognizing the beauty of laws otherwise discovered, we use principles of beauty – vast symmetry and a high ratio of output to input – to enable discovery. When this works, we have an “anthropic” explanation of the laws’ beauty: If they were not beautiful, we would not have found them.
我们不是去认识发现的定律的美，而是用美的原理——高度对称和高投入产出比——来促成发现。当这起作用时，我们就有了关于美的定律的“人类”解释：如果它们不美，我们就不会发现它们。