“The old dead trees are the most fascinating - the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell perhaps a century ago, pulling up their roots from the earth as they toppled. The great upheavals left rocks in their huge tentacles and, as they slowly rot, the trunks are home to populations of creatures, from goannas to wild pigs. As grey as tombstones in a cemetery they lie there, having outlasted generations of farmers, as they'll outlast me. In their own way they are as beautiful, more beautiful, than living trees.” WayHomeEarthBeautifulLyingLeftBeautyGenerationsTreeRocksCenturyHugeCreaturesRootsPopulationHillsFascinatingFarmersPigsPullingGreyCemeteryTrunksTombstoneUpheavalFloraTentaclesDead Trees Author:Phillip Adams
“Two centuries ago Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians and a founder of number theory, described his brainchild as "the queen of mathematics." Queens are regal, but they are also largely decorative, and this nuance was not lost on Gauss.” ArtTwoLostNumbersBeautyCenturyTheoryMathematicsQueensAestheticFoundersMathematicianNuanceRegal Author:Ian Stewart
“Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.” FoundBeautyCenturySatisfactionFoolishImmortalAppetiteApathyMonstrous Author:Charles Baudelaire
“I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.” LittlesCareBeautyStruggleCenturyConcernedPerfectionDon't CareI Don't CareIntensityI CareLife Struggle Author:Emile Zola
“But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony.” RealBeautyMusicCenturyExampleHarmony20th CenturyEquations Author:Edward Witten
“I like living in the 20th century... to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the real world I live in, as beautifully as I can with my own eyes.” WorldTryingArtI CanRealEyeBeautifulMy OwnBeautyCenturyPaintReal World20th Century Author:Jeffrey Smart
“I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again physicists have been guided by their sense of beauty not only in developing new theories but even in judging the validity of physical theories once they are developed. Simplicity is part of what I mean by beauty, but it is a simplicity of ideas, not simplicity of a mechanical sort that can be measured by counting equations or symbols.” WantMeanHas BeensArtIdeasFactsStoriesThreeBeautyCenturyJudgingTheoryCuriositySimplicityPhysicsTalesCuriousSymbolsDevelopingEquationsPhysicistTwentieth CenturyCountingValidity Author:Steven Weinberg
“Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.” Has BeensTodayYoungBeautyCenturyStudentsAchievementTwentieth CenturySolemnNotableStudents Today Book:Tempest-tost Source: Tempest-tost