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• What is elegance? Soap and water!

  Cecil Beaton

  Water, Soap And Water, Soap

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• Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

  Robert Fitzgerald

  Poetry, Revelations, Poetry Is

  Robert Fitzgerald (1993). “The Third Kind of Knowledge: Memoirs & Selected Writings”, p.278, New Directions Publishing

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• 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.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Hard Work, Appreciate, Simplicity

  "On the nature of Computing Science" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. August 10, 1984.

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• The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

  George Sand

  Perfect, Cigar, Lifestyle

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• The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Serenity, Trying, Innocence

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• I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

  Bell Hooks

  Art, Grace, Belief

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• The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

  Clifford Geertz

  Mean, Thinking, Intuition

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• Throw out and keep throwing out. Elegance means elimination.

  Jean-Michel Frank

  Mean, Elimination, Throwing

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• It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

  Cesar Romero

  Big Families, Gone, Towns

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• When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.

  Michio Kaku

  Falling In Love, Simplicity, Paper

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• An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

  Salvador Dali

  Women, Hair, Arms

  Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.178, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  William Bartram

  Nature, Views, Order

  William Bartram (1958). “The Travels of William Bartram”, p.31, University of Georgia Press

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• I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.

  Vanna White

  Thinking, People, Think Of Me

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• I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function

  Donald A. Norman

  Believe, Apples, Simplicity

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• 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.

  Frederick Sommer

  Dimensions, Structure, Modification

  Frederick Sommer (1984). “Sommer: Words”

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

  Henri Poincare

  Idaho, Giving, Feelings

  "The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind". Book by Marvin Minsky, p. 239, November 13, 2007.

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• Science has been effective at furthering our understanding of nature because the scientific ethos is based on three key principles: (1) follow the evidence wherever it leads; (2) if one has a theory, one needs to be willing to try to prove it wrong as much as one tries to prove that it is right; (3) 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.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Keys, Ethos, Common Sense

  Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe From Nothing”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• 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!

  Johnny Ball

  Sensual, Needs, Want

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• In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

  Christian Lacroix

  Taste, Individualism, Certain

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• A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

  Abba Eban

  Ears, Movement, Posture

  Abba Solomon Eban (1999). “Diplomacy for the Next Century”, p.88, Yale University Press

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• 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.

  Sidney Altman

  Book, Years, Saws

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• Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Delicacy, Produce, Refinement

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• Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother

  Patricia Highsmith

  Mother, Humor, Affection

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• The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Progress, Rudeness

  Samuel Johnson (1823). “The works of Samuel Johnson”, p.252

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• I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.

  James Joyce

  Funny, Humorous, Silly

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