If We Are Honest - And Scientists

It Is Quite Clear That Beauty Does Depend On One's Culture And Upbringing For Certain Kinds Of Beauty, Pictures, Literature, Poetry And So On...but Mathematical Beauty Is Of A Rather Different Kind. I Should Say Perhaps It Is Of A Completely Different Kind And Transcends These Personal Factors. It Is The Same In All Countries And At All Periods Of Time.

Hopes Are Always Accompanied By Fears, And, In Scientific Research, The Fears Are Liable To Become Dominant.

It Seems That If One Is Working From The Point Of View Of Getting Beauty In One's Equations, And If One Has Really A Sound Insight, One Is On A Sure Line Of Progress.

Pick A Flower On Earth And You Move The Farthest Star.

The Research Worker, In His Efforts To Express The Fundamental Laws Of Nature In Mathematical Form, Should Strive Mainly For Mathematical Beauty. He Should Take Simplicity Into Consideration In A Subordinate Way To Beauty ... It Often Happens That The Requirements Of Simplicity And Beauty Are The Same, But Where They Clash, The Latter Must Take Precedence.