# A Plea for the Sublime in Science **Opening (not a real abstract):** There is a growing literature on the role of aesthetic values, experiences and judgements in the scientific endeavour. The aesthetic dimension of science is suggested by scientists themselves. Indeed, they often describe their objects of study or scientific achievements in terms of beauty, using related adjectives like “harmonious”, “simple” or “wonderful”. Sometimes they even go further and make direct parallelism between artworks and their theories, laws and experiments. Scientists have also praised their aesthetic sensibility, referring in their decision-making process to emotions and feelings involved in aesthetic experiences (e.g., pleasure, delight, contemplation, exaltation, wonder, awe). Moreover, often enough scientists hold that such aesthetic dimension reveals a connection with the **Authors:** [[Margherita Arcangeli and Jerome Dokic]]