Charm Quote by Hermann Hankel

“The beauty of a mathematical theorem depends a great deal on its seriousness, as even in poetry the beauty of a line may depend…

— G.H. Hardy

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere…

— Anonymous

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

A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.

— Paul Dirac

I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.

— Pierre de Fermat

I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and…

— Anonymous

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

— Thomas Huxley

It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.

— Stanislaw Ulam

The greatest unsolved theorem in mathematics is why some people are better at it than others.

— Adrian Mathesis

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be…

— James D. Watson

Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking in imagination,…

— Freeman Dyson

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