February 2002
"...Copernicus' aesthetic objections to [equants] provided one essential motive for his rejection of the Ptolemaic system...."
- Thomas Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution
"All of us had been trained by Kelly Johnson and believed fanatically in his insistence that an airplane that looked beautiful would fly the same way."
- Ben Rich, Skunk Works
"Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics."
- G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology