"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
— Tom Stoppard

January 1, 1970

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Hermann Weyl as quoted by Freeman Dyson: "Characteristic of Weyl was an aesthetic sense which dominated his thinking on all subjects. He once said to me, half-joking, 'My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.'" - Freeman Dyson, "Obituary of Hermann Weyl," Nature (10 March 1956)), pp. 457-458