Beauty Quote by Clifford Geertz

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

— Brian Greene

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.

— Anonymous

“Mathematicians think in symbols, physicists in objects, philosophers in concepts, geometers in images, jurists in constructs, logicians in operators, writers in impressions, and idiots…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an…

— Edsger Dijkstra

“I spoke of the 'real' mathematics of Fermat and other great mathematicians, the mathematics which has permanent aesthetic value, as for example the best…

— G.H. Hardy

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

I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is…

— Paul Dirac

You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll…

— Len Evans

Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting.

— Richard P. Feynman

A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and commerce, war,…

— Eric Temple Bell