Cern Quote by Michael Quinion

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

— Anonymous

“the ugliest things in human nature are perversions of good and innocent things.”

— C.S. Lewis

What I remember most clearly was that when I put down a suggestion that seemed to me cogent and reasonable, Einstein did not in…

— Hermann Bondi

It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is…

— E. Nesbit

“The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in…

— Victor Hugo

“in my afterword, which discusses the ugliest of all ugly feelings: disgust. As”

— Sianne Ngai

“I think it is our nature to believe evil always has an ugly face,” he said, ignoring my question. “Beauty is supposed to be…

— Danielle L. Jensen

“But the people only talked about how ugly her face looked. No one even bothered to mention what a sweet, kindhearted girl she was.…

— Janaki Sooriyarachchi

I blame Beauty and the Beast for giving ugly kids confidence & tricking them into thinking that beauty is found on the inside.

— Green Monk

“In practice I think it’s easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty. Most of the people who’ve made beautiful things seem to have…

— Paul Graham

“It sure is ugly.” “Ugly, never hurt a thing.” I scoffed. “Oh, ugly has hurt some things. It’s just that pretty hurts more.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Normal humanity has only the courage to react to the usual gradations that range from the beautiful to the ugly, which in the long…

— José Donoso