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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 radiance of dignity and grace creates a profound elegance which exists whether anyone is watching or not."
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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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"What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?"
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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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"Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?"
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"We must never confuse elegance with snobbery."
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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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"To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance."
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"I am from the planet of elegance."
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"The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance."
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"Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things."
Art

"To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."
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"The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law."
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"It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all."
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"Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts."
Science

"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."
Nature

"Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence."
Earth

"What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?"
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"It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details."
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"How is an error possible in mathematics?"
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