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Quotations regarding 'Elegance'
33 entries • Page 1 of 2
About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.
Sidney Altman, Canadian Scientist (1939- )
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!
Johnny Ball, British Entertainer (1938- )
My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.
William Bartram, American Environmentalist (1739-1823)
What is elegance? Soap and water!
Cecil Beaton, English Photographer (1904-1980)
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
Merry Browne, -
Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.
Craig Bruce, -
I am from the planet of elegance.
Ron Carter, American Musician (1937- )
Elegance is refusal.
Coco Chanel, French Designer (1883-1971)
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Coco Chanel, French Designer (1883-1971)
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Coco Chanel, French Designer (1883-1971)
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch Scientist (1930-2002)
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.
Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch Scientist (1930-2002)
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch Scientist (1930-2002)
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman (1804-1881)
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
Abba Eban, Israeli Diplomat (1915-2002)
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein, German Physicist (1879-1955)
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
Robert Fitzgerald, American Author (1910-1985)
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
Clifford Geertz, American Scientist (1926-2006)
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
Jean Genet, French Dramatist (1910-1986)
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
Patricia Highsmith, American Novelist (1921-1995)
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