Elegance Quotes

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.