Beauty Quote by Edsger Dijkstra

Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further from the…

— Keith Devlin

How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury,…

— Edsger Dijkstra

...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all…

— Henri Poincare

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

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise…

— Johnny Ball

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

The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.

— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.

— Martin Gardner

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

— Stefan Banach

The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional…

— George Polya

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

Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as…

— Hermann Weyl