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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson1907–1964The Sense of Wonder (1965)
- Nature
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822A Defence of Poetry (1821)
- Poetry
I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.
Richard Feynman1918–1988Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985), Part 5: “The World of One Physicist”, “But Is It Art?”, p. 261
- Art
If numbers aren’t beautiful, I don’t know what is.
Paul Erdős1913–1996Frequent remark, as quoted in My Brain Is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos (1998) by Bruce Schechter, p. 14
She is the sum of nature’s universe.
To her perfection all of beauty tends.
Dante Alighieri1265–1321La Vita Nuova (c. 1293), Chapter XIX, canzone “Donne ch’avete intelletto d’amore”, lines 49–50 (tr. Barbara Reynolds)
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Maxims and Reflections (1833), Maxim 609, trans. Stopp
- Science
To look upon you was to rejoice that so fair a thing could be; to think of you is still to be young.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937The Little Minister (1891), Ch. 1: The Love-Light
- Youth
The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 1, p. 17
People should be beautiful in every way⁠—in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts and in their innermost selves.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Uncle Vanya (1897), Act II
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
Galileo Galilei1564–1642Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632), Salviati
- Science
I would be the happiest man if the gloomy winter of mankind were to give way to a shaft of sunlight and to coloured flowers. The world is very beautiful.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto1928–1979Letter to his daughter (1978), p. 78—79
- Hope
I think it’s a very confused culture. On the one hand, no one is better than anyone else; no one is prettier. On the other hand, everyone is completely obsessed by their looks and by how they strike the world.
Martin Amis1949–2023Playboy interview (2003)
I’m not afraid to be sexy. A woman who is intelligent and also knows how to weaponize her beauty… there’s nothing more dangerous than that. There’s nothing more powerful than that.
Megan Foxborn 1986Megan Fox reveals thoughts on being Hollywood ‘sex symbol’ at Met Gala: ‘I’m not afraid to be sexy’ USA Today. (September 13, 2021)
- Power
- Women
We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation.
Neil Gaimanborn 1960Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)
- Responsibility
Sexiness is a state of mind⁠—a comfortable state of being. It’s about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.
Halle Berryborn 1966Suzanne Condie Lambert (October 9, 2008) “‘Esquire’ crowns Berry the sexiest woman alive”, The Arizona Republic, p. E6.
- Sex