Elegance Quotes
From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which it included.
When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.
The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.
Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become.
An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.
The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.
I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.
...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all mathematicians know
I can't say I prefer blondes, brunettes, or redheads. I like emotion and elegance. Even expensive clothes do not guarantee a good look. You must be yourself above all!
By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.
I read once that elegance is a privilege of age. I thought, that's so true. You get more comfortable with yourself as you get older.
There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.
Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.
You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.
Chanel all the way! Just because not only do they have timeless pieces, but since it is the epitome of class and elegance.
If a poor house is well kept, or a poor girl well groomed, there is elegance if not beauty. If good people should come upon hard times, why should they immediately give up on themselves?
Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function
While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.
Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus... . We must demand, at least, intention.
When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.
Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.
It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.
Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.
The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.
What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
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!
