Beauty Quote by Paul Dirac

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

— Arthur Cayley

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

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a…

— Murray Gell-Mann

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

— Richard P. Feynman

Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove…

— Aristotle

A theory may be so rich in descriptive possibilities that it can be made to fit any data.

— Phillip Johnson-Laird

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a…

— Murray Gell-Mann

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

— G. H. Hardy

To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.

— Paul Klee

It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is working from…

— Paul Dirac

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

— Thomas Huxley

You have to be careful when you use beauty as a guide. There are many theories people didn't think were beautiful at the time…

— Lisa Randall