a beauty cold and austere
Posted in Journal on May 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
The whole quote, from Bertrand Russell:
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the [...]
