What is elegance? Soap and water!
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
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.
The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.
The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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.
Throw out and keep throwing out. Elegance means elimination.
It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.
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.
An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
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.
I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function
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?
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.
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!
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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.
Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother
The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.
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.
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