“I never had to choose my subject- my subject rather chose me.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
“My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.”
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Source: Hermann Weyl as quoted by Freeman Dyson: "Characteristic of Weyl was an aesthetic sense which dominated his thinking on all subjects. He once said to me, half-joking, 'My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.'" - Freeman Dyson, "Obituary of Hermann Weyl," Nature (1956-03-10), pp. 457-458.
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