“Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.”
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One night I'll be in Los Angeles and it'll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I'll go to Fresno and it'll be an all-black crowd. To me, that's the beauty of the music.
When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.
I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.