Hermann Weyl Quotes

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It's not just an idea, it's reality. We're discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.

In physics, all can you do is predict the consequences of physical laws.

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which Newton discovered with the aid of the calculus, is to have a sufficient number of observations and a mathematics that is complex enough.

Art is truth.

The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

A good poem is a contribution to reality.

Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses' beard!

Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.