Quotes About Beauty

The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.

Science is the poetry of reality.

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.

There are so many stars shining in the sky, so many beautiful things winking at you, but when Venus comes out, all the others are waned, they are pushed to the background.

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.

We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves.

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

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.

Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty.

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind. Art the Integral Calculus; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only when combined.

The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.

The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.

Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.

Everybody knows that orthopaedic science provides beautiful false noses for those who have lost their noses naturally or as the result of an operation.

I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?

From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.