How is the principle viewed by the physicists? In the classical age (which includes Einstein) there was a sense of the divine attached to the metaphysical view-points. This tendency is still very strong among individual members of the theoretical physics community. Simplicity and beauty are considered hallmarks of correct theories. Such subjective positions however have not so far thwarted the cleansing process of the sociology of science. Beauty means mathematical elegance. Those not trained in mathematics will agree, and even more so those who suffered mathematical training against their will, that such beauty lies strictly in the eyes of the beholder. As for simplicity, some anthropocentric position can easily be constructed that says that had the advancement and training in scientific thinking not reached a certain point the theory would hardly look simple. Conversely, that which does not appear simple at a particular epoch is unlikely to be discovered in that form. A realistic approach to what physicists consider beautiful is best expressed in the words of S. Weinberg, "We consider theories beautiful in the same way that we may consider beautiful a horse that wins us a prize".