One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty. – Edward Witten
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore. – Edward Witten
But the beauty of Einsteins equations, for example, is just as real to anyone whos experienced it as the beauty of music. Weve learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony. – Edward Witten
Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn? – Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont