Aristotle Quotes

Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can take place.

If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.

I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

The aim of art is to understand and establish order, which is another form of beauty.

Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.

Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and in particular the crystallographers, have had considerable influence on my work of the last twenty years. The laws of the phenomena around us--order, regularity, cyclical repetition, and renewals--have assumed greater and greater importance for me. The awareness of their presence gives me peace and provides me with support. I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

There is no beauty without order.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

I think complexity is beautiful.

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.

You can't chop down a symmetry