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Quotes Tagged "esthetics"

I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.
— Henry Miller Tropic of Capricorn
Tags: philosophy, esthetics
The deep question is: Why does nature embody so much symmetry? We do not know the full answer to this question. However, we have some partial answers. Symmetry leads to economy, and nature, like human beings, seems to prefer economy. If we think of nature as a vast ongoing experiment, constantly trying out different possibilities of design, then those designs that cost the least energy or that require the fewest different parts to come together at the right time will take precedence, just as the principle of natural selection says that organisms with the best ability to survive will dominate over time. One physical principle that governs nature over and over is the “energy principle”: nature evolves to minimize energy.
— Alan Lightman The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew
Tags: symmetry, science, nature, natural-law, esthetics, elegance
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