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If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.

— Paul Erdős

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It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time.

My Brain Is Open : The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos (1998)

Proof and conjecture, and keep the SF's score low.

And the aim is to keep the SF's score low.

I don't claim that this is correct, or that God exists, but it is just sort of half a joke.

I'm not competent to judge. But no doubt he was a great man.

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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