Elegant Quotes - Page 18

• A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and second if the model makes definite predictions that can be tested, and possibly falsified, by observation.

  Stephen Hawking

  Simple, Firsts, Predictions

  "Audio: Stephen Hawking’s Best Quotes" by Adam Mann, www.wired.com. January 8, 2012.

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• Simon Fraser University would make an elegant ruin

  Bruno Freschi

  Ruins, University

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• I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Powerful, Timeless, All Time

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• One should put forth great effort in matters of learning. One should read books concerning military matters, and direct his attention exclusively to
  the virtues of loyalty and filial piety. Reading Chinese poetry, linked
  verse, and waka is forbidden. One will surely become womanized if he gives
  his heart such knowledge of such elegant and delicate refinements. Having
  been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp
  the long and the short swords and to die

  Kato Kiyomasa

  Loyalty, Military, Reading

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• I thought it was very elegant, a wonderful opening. The vegans seemed so surprised-God knows what they get to eat.

  Gael Greene

  Vegan, Wonderful, God Knows

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• Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy

  Jenny Holzer

  Hands, Weapons, Messy

  David Joselit, Joan Simon, Renata Salecl, Jenny Holzer (1998). “Jenny Holzer”, Phaidon Inc Ltd

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• Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.

  Edward Abbey

  Sacrifice, Laughing, Nuance

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

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• ...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have to be debugged into some degree of acceptability....Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Simple

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• I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it, and Will Smith has been doing it in his own way.

  Steven Cojocaru

  Thinking, Way, Modern

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• Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Being Happy, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Рипол Классик

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• I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

  Renee Fleming

  Singing, Enjoy, Exposed

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• My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.

  Robert Fulghum

  Dance, Sweet, Night

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• My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.

  Andy Garcia

  Father, Cuba, Saws

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• There's a look of mischief in his eyes. 'Smilla. Why is it that such an elegant and petite girl like you has such a rough voice.' I'm sorry,' I say, 'if I give you the impression that it is only my mouth that's rough. I do my best to be rough all over.

  Peter Høeg

  Girl, Sorry, Eye

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• But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

  Carl Sagan

  Able, Imagine, Subtle

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.422, Ballantine Books

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• Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

  Honore de Balzac

  Paris, Doe, Good French

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• You have to have the will not to jump at the first solution, because the really elegant solution might be right around the corner.

  Ray Dolby

  Persistence, Might, Firsts

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• Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophy, Becoming

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• Cats are always elegant.

  John Weitz

  Cat

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• When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.

  Martin Prechtel

  Music, Grief, Singers

  Martín Prechtel (2013). “The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form”, p.83, North Atlantic Books

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• A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.

  Leo Frankowski

  Beautiful, Simple, Talking

  Leo Frankowski (2004). “Conrad Stargard: The Radiant Warrior”, p.155, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Google has the functionality of a really complicated Swiss Army knife, but the home page is our of approaching it closed... It's simple, it's elegant you can slip it in your pocket, but it's got the great doodad when you need it

  Marissa Mayer

  Home, Army, Simple

  "The Beauty of Simplicity", www.fastcompany.com. November 1, 2005.

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• Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Inspirational, Funny, Flower

  Henry Walter Bates (1873). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.131

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• This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not.

  Elaine Stritch

  Behave, Humans, Human Beings

  "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me: Tribeca Review" by David Rooney, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 19, 2013.

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• Never stop hoping for all of the righteous desires of your heart. But don't close your eyes and hearts to the simple and elegant beauties of each day's ordinary moments that make up a rich, well-lived life

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Heart, Eye, Simple

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