Max Planck — "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a be…"

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 greatest art can show.
Max Planck — Max Planck Modern · Quantum theory

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Often attributed to Bertrand Russell, but sometimes to Planck in the context of scientific beauty. This is a common misattribution.

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