Aristotle Quotes

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

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

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

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

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.

The good is the beautiful.

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.

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.

Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is for me an extremely beautiful and utterly unique thing. Like the Mona Lisa or a Mozart symphony, pi is its own reason for loving it.

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

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

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.

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.

Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.

My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In my late 20s I wrote several 11-line poems because I wanted to create poems that couldn't be uniformly divided into couplets, tercets, or quatrains, 11 being a prime number.

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.

To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that it is so useless that I make little distinction between a man who is only a mathematician and a common artisan. Also, I call it the most beautiful profession in the world; but it is only a profession.

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.

The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare.

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.