Do you believe in miracles?

[Thorne]

Even you have redeeming qualities!

Just don't tell anyone! It'll destroy my reputation.

I think can agree with you that, while the ability to appreciate beauty might have to be taught, the act of appreciating it is a subjective one. So, while I might think my wife is ugly, and you consider her beautiful, there is a quality of "beauty" out there somewhere that we both subscribe to: an idea of what beauty is. Science cannot explain what that is.

Although I do not even KNOW your wife, this basically has been my point. And it is not science's task to explain what beauty is, or even what may be beautiful. It is science's task to try to remove the superstition and myth which permeates people's views of their world. And I, for one, find a certain amount of beauty in that.