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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we can… — Hod Lipson
No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating… — Benjamin Martin
His legs have a mind of their own, his foot shoots by itself... Roberto Baggio is a big horsetail that flicks away opponents as he… — Eduardo Galeano
On the waves of the brook she dances by, The light, the lovely dragon-fly; She dances here, she dances there, The shimmering, glimmering flutterer fair.… — Heinrich Heine
But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony. — John Fogerty
Affected simplicity is an elegant imposture. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid. — Akkineni Nagarjuna
The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger… — Jean Genet
In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat. — Harold Evans
The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put… — Jennifer Lynch
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony. — Nancy Pearcey
A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as… — Vincent Piazza
You know, I find people with great honesty, bodily, physical honesty, who sit just the way they like to sit, and walk the way they… — Alexander Siddig
I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used… — Francis Lawrence
It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daemon simply by stating it outright; whereas you get very… — Chris Weitz
My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists. — Eva Zeisel
Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and… — Paul Davies
John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the country: a handsome, witty president, an elegant… — Kitty Kelley
I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging,… — Camilla Belle
It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world… — Michael Behe
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. — Thomas Bulfinch
I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know. — Carla Bruni
As he approached the place where a meeting of doctors was being held, he saw some elegant limousines and remarked, "The surgeons have arrived." Then… — Walter Bradford Cannon
I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation. — Elliott Erwitt

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