Aesthetic Quote by Michael Atiyah

Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed.

— Edward Charles Titchmarsh

The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

— Oscar Niemeyer

A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

[The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering of the…

— Thomas Little Heath

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The heart of mathematics consists of concrete examples and concrete problems. Big general theories are usually afterthoughts based on small but profound insights; the…

— Paul Halmos

It is so easy for us theorists who build wonderful castles, beautiful ideas. Sometimes, it is remarkable, sometimes these beautiful ideas prove to be…

— Jim Peebles

When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have…

— Michio Kaku

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

— Harold Davenport

I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems.

— David Mumford

As regards the efficacy of the art and the theories of it, I promise and expect that in these volumes I shall undoubtedly show…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius…

— Gosta Mittag-Leffler