Accepted Quote by Paul Dirac

What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its great mathematical…

— Paul Dirac

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

— Paul Dirac

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

— Arthur Cayley

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

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

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

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

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

— Bertrand Russell

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

— Philip J. Davis

“Our attraction to that quality which we have come to call 'beauty', and which we associate with the detection of innate unity and harmony…

— Charles Babbage

The beauty of physics lies in the extent which seemingly complex and unrelated phenomena can be explained and correlated through a high level of…

— Melvin Schwartz

Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a…

— Nikola Tesla