“True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.”
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
“Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.”
— Aristotle, book Metaphysics
Book XIII, 1078a.33
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