Lydia Davis Quotes

As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen.

I've always wanted to find the rules that govern everything. It's amazing that such rules exist. It's even more amazing that we can find them.

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.

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

Everything in life is built on principles - plants, seas, birds, all of the natural elements of nature, they all follow and obey certain basic fundamental principles.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

We call interconnected order beautiful. When interrupted, we call it chaos.

La' , tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute , Luxe, calme et volupte . There where all is order and beauty. Lush, calm and voluptuous.

If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants.

Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare.

Inside every one of us is a garden, and every practitioner has to go back to their garden and take care of it. Maybe in the past, you left in untended for a long time. You should know exactly what is going on in your own garden, and try to put everything in order. Restore the beauty; restore the harmony in your garden. If it is well tended, many people will enjoy your garden.

Math is the language of the universe.

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.

Reality favors symmetry.

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté Luxe, calme et volupté There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and pleasure.

Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation

There is no beauty without order.

I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

One may ask the question as to the extent to which the quest for beauty is an aim in the pursuit of science. . . . It is, indeed, an incredible fact that what the human mind, at its deepest and most profound, perceives as beautiful finds its realization in external nature. What is intelligible is also beautiful.