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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

G. H. Hardy
Beauty, Math, Apology
A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.