“Geometrical Speculations have just as much Elegancy as Simplicity, and deserve just so much praise as they can promise Use.”

— Isaac Newton, book Arithmetica Universalis

Arithmetica Universalis (1707), p.232

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Oct. 1, 2023. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Geometrical Speculations have just as much Elegancy as Simplicity, and deserve just so much praise as they can promise …" by Isaac Newton?

Isaac Newton171

British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern c… 1643–1727

Related quotes

“It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.”

Stanislaw Ulam (1909–1984) Polish-American mathematician

Source: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 15, Random Reflections on Mathematics and Science, p. 274

“I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.”

Jonathan Ive (1967) English designer and VP of Design at Apple

Ive explaining the design philosophy behind iOS 7 in its product video, shown at WWDC 2013.

“Life, which has gifted us with so much valuable and beautiful, so much created and possible, is unquestionably deserving of reverence and service.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

“In a history book, you can't imagine, you can't speculate, you can't conjure new worlds because that would ruin the history book. .... And in a novel you can't have too much fact-dumping, too much history, it just doesn't work, too much footnoting, again that ruins the story. So I love the fact that I can do speculation and imagination in one and go wild in a novel and then do proper, scrupulous research in the other. I think they compliment each other.”

Kate Williams (historian) (1974) British historian

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-17945784
Meet the Author: Kate Williams
BBC
3 May 2012
2 May 2021

“What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found [back] in the museum of Naples – in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.”

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) French painter and sculptor

Source: 1880's, Renoir – his life and work, 1975, p. 164 : quote from Renoir's letter to Durand-Ruell, 1882, referring to a small painting with trees of the landscape-painter Corot

“Elegant as simplicity, and warm
As ecstasy.”

William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist

Source: Table Talk (1782), Line 588.

“Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.”

Bill Bryson book A Short History of Nearly Everything

Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“The elegant simplicity of the three per cents.”

William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell (1745–1836) British politician

As quoted in Lives of the Lord Chancellors (1845) by John Campbell, Vol. x. Chap. 212; this precedes the use by Benjamin Disraeli of "The sweet simplicity of the three per cents", in Endymion (1880).

“It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble, it's the things we do know that just ain't so.”

Artemus Ward (1834–1867) American writer

“Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

“Geometrical Speculations have just as much Elegancy as Simplicity, and deserve just so much praise as they can promise Use.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Isaac Newton171

Related quotes

Related topics