Elegant Quotes
William Congreve, Elijah Fenton (1779). “The Works of the English Poets”, p.333
William Goyen, Reginald Gibbons (2007). “Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews”, p.85, University of Texas Press
Louisa May Alcott (1872). “Little Women Or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy”, p.24
It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.
"Adventures of a Mathematician". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 3rd edition. Chapter 15: "Random Reflections on Mathematics and Science", p. 274, 1991.
John Dryden (1830). “Virgil: the Eclogues”, p.231
E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver”, p.38, Simon and Schuster