Modern Science. Truth. Beauty

Abstract

The article analyses the problem of correlation of truth, goodness and beauty. The problem includes several aspects. Special attention is given to the relationship of truth and beauty, the role of the art in the scientific discovery, aesthetic experience in scientific cognition, feeling of mathematical beauty, harmony of numbers and form, “geometric elegance” as Poincare wrote. It is being proved that intuition is insight into the nature of the process, first without preliminary accumulation of empirical material and second, without synthesis and rethinking of the theoretical developments. Imagination is the ability to create new sensory and mental images on the basis of the transformation of impressions, received in reality. If the imagination unconsciously combines the facts in new ways, while the intuition transfers the necessary images into the consciousness. The process of cognition is impossible without imagination and intuition; the important role for their formation plays aesthetic perception of reality.