Aesthetic Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.

— Richard P. Feynman

Blindness to the aesthetic element in mathematics is widespread and can account for a feeling that mathematics is dry as dust, as exciting as…

— Philip J. Davis

What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It…

— Franz Grillparzer

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out…

— Marston Morse

...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own…

— James Jeans

As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has…

— Paul Dirac

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…

— Anonymous

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

— G. H. Hardy

Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.

— Roger Lewin

Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

— Daniel Tammet

To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.

— Paul Klee

The kind of people who become graphic artists may not be mathematically inclined. They're artists, artistically inclined.

— Daniel Levitin