What's Wrong with This Elegance?, from Physics Today, March 2000. Letters in response (from August 2000). (At the very least, this properly attributes the quote, "Elegance is for tailors," to L. Boltzmann, and not Einstein, who merely cited it.)
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August 7, 2001