Quotes About Mathematical Beauty

#1. Mathematical solutions are selected by the subliminal self on the basis of "mathematical beauty," of the harmony of numbers and forms, of geometric elegance.

Robert M. Pirsig

#2. The perfection of mathematical beauty is such ... that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

#3. Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith ... For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so universally accepted is its mathematical beauty.

Paul Dirac

#4. A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.

Paul Dirac

#5. The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

#6. The feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all mathematicians know

Henri Poincare

#7. Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.

Martin Gardner

#8. It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.

Paul Dirac

#9. All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#10. Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

Marcus Du Sautoy

#11. No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself,
But by reflection, by some other things.

William Shakespeare

#12. One of the cleverest and most insidious twists in the whole sorry tale is the way women are double bound by a gender-biased definition of professionalism and the threat of being labeled "whining.

Laura Bates

#13. Now is the time ... if you want to make a difference in the world, now is the time. Don't be fooled into thinking you should wait until you are older or wiser or more secure because it doesn't work that way. The wisdom will come. The security will come. But first you must begin.

Ron Atchison

#14. As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

Arthur Cayley

#15. The gospel is not good advice to men, but good news about Christ; not an invitation to us to do anything, but a declaration of what God has done; not a demand, but an offer.

John R.W. Stott

#16. What I wanted, frankly, was someone who would argue me out of the things that I was thinking.

Agatha Christie

#17. Wherever there is number, there is beauty.

Proclus

#18. I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

Orlando Bloom

#19. There's more likelihood of Ian Paisley being the next pope, than of me agreeing to a fix or a stitch-up.

Rhodri Morgan

#20. It is almost possible to say that there is a mathematical relationship between the beauty of his surroundings and the activity of the child; he will make discoveries rather more voluntarily in a gracious setting than in an ugly one.

Maria Montessori

#21. It wasn't only his city that was healing, Raphael thought, his eyes catching the refracted light that betrayed Aodhan's presence in the sky; his people were, too. And it had all begun with a single, vulnerable mortal who did not accept that to be an archangel was to be always right.

Nalini Singh

#22. Sense of beauty, perception, and the mathematical universe are all part of the same texture.

Neeti Sinha

#23. Young people especially sometimes feel that the standards of the Lord are like fences and chains, blocking them from those activities that seem most enjoyable in life.

Ezra Taft Benson

#24. When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.

Vladimir Kramnik