...elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid...
Zoë HellerTags: wisdom elegance stupid-people
There might be cheats or possible cheats amongst them, men who beat their wives, men with perverse instincts, greedy men, cowardly men, lying men; but the elegance of the room invested each one with a kind of aristocracy.
Ian FlemingTags: elegance cards aristocracy cheaters
Indeed, "brute force" solutions are often characteristic of advanced cultures, not primitive ones. The Romans and their predecessors spent a long time figuring out how to build arches... and virtually all our buildings today use post-and-lintel construction, precisely what the arch was devised to replace. We have better materials and more money, and given that, arches are usually not worth the extra complexity.
Henry SpencerTags: complexity elegance architecture engineering brute-force
Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.
Coco ChanelTags: fashion elegance chanel timeless
This is God's beauty!
The Elegant nature of Esther,
The Meek nature of Moses,
The Pius nature of Paul,
The Passionate nature of Peter,
The Just nature of Jesus and then
The wise nature of you!
Tags: wisdom knowledge passion natural beauty justice nature god understanding bible jesus elegance wise food-for-thought jesus-christ meekness christ beautiful paul you holy-bible peter just esther elegant passionate apostle-paul meek israelmore-ayivor god-s-beauty apostle-peter bible-quotation mosses pius
Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.
J. Tuzo WilsonTags: science life theories nature wonder admiration elegance geology woods scientist plate-tectonics scenery scientific-theories laboratory lab
It was inelegant, but what was not when taking a hostage?
Thomm QuackenbushTags: elegance hostage elegant
The great masters of modern analysis are Lagrange, Laplace, and Gauss, who were contemporaries. It is interesting to note the marked contrast in their styles. Lagrange is perfect both in form and matter, he is careful to explain his procedure, and though his arguments are general they are easy to follow. Laplace on the other hand explains nothing, is indifferent to style, and, if satisfied that his results are correct, is content to leave them either with no proof or with a faulty one. Gauss is as exact and elegant as Lagrange, but even more difficult to follow than Laplace, for he removes every trace of the analysis by which he reached his results, and studies to give a proof which while rigorous shall be as concise and synthetical as possible.
W.W. Rouse BallTags: science style difficulty elegance scientists argument praise perfection proof interesting masters lagrange gauss laplace pierre-simon-laplace joseph-louis-lagrange carl-friedrich-gauss modern-analysis
Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent nature—a mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it.
Ashim ShankerTags: deception elegance mask disguise violent-nature
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