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"What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?"
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"Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?"
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"To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance."
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"Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony."
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"We must never confuse elegance with snobbery."
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"The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance."
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"What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?"
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"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."
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"If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!"
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"Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon, it only shines because the sun is there."
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"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."
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"Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts."
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"How is an error possible in mathematics?"
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"A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance."
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"Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination."
Ideas
"The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so."
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"Mathematicians are born, not made."
Mathematicians
"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."
Life
"Science is facts."
Science
"Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?"
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"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful."
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