What do you think the connection between truth, beauty, wisdom and simplicity?
Beauty and simplicity are connected with symmetry I guess. Symmetry make thing simple at the same time aesthetically appealing. For example a face with higher symmetry is simper (for perfect mirror symmetry you only need to know half of it) and it is also more beautiful. In this website (http://faceresearch.org/demos/average) you can make average of individual faces and almost always average is better than any single one of them. It’s because average face tend to be more symmetrical. There is of course more to it but I think its at least one aspect of it.
What about the relation between truth and simplicity. May be the physical world is ultimately simple that’s why truth about it is also simple (of course in the correct language). For example Quantum Mechanics is linear (i.e simplest form of dependency), which make QM more elegant and beautiful than classical mechanics. What about other truths? Truth about creativity, human relationship, morality and ethics, I don’t know.
Most effective advices and guiding principles also seem to me as the simpler ones. e.g Bertrand Russell said “I have a very simple creed that life and joy and beauty are better than dusty death“.
Few quotes:
“You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity” – Richard Feynman
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” – Albert Einstein
“God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.” – Paul Dirac
“As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen.” – Paul Dirac
“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art” – Frederic Chopin
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” – Jack Kerouac
Beauty and simplicity are connected with symmetry I guess. Symmetry make thing simple at the same time aesthetically appealing. For example a face with higher symmetry is simper (for perfect mirror symmetry you only need to know half of it) and it is also more beautiful. In this website (http://faceresearch.org/demos/average) you can make average of individual faces and almost always average is better than any single one of them. It’s because average face tend to be more symmetrical. There is of course more to it but I think its at least one aspect of it.
What about the relation between truth and simplicity. May be the physical world is ultimately simple that’s why truth about it is also simple (of course in the correct language). For example Quantum Mechanics is linear (i.e simplest form of dependency), which make QM more elegant and beautiful than classical mechanics. What about other truths? Truth about creativity, human relationship, morality and ethics, I don’t know.
Most effective advices and guiding principles also seem to me as the simpler ones. e.g Bertrand Russell said “I have a very simple creed that life and joy and beauty are better than dusty death“.
Few quotes:
“You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity” – Richard Feynman
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” – Albert Einstein
“God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.” – Paul Dirac
“As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen.” – Paul Dirac
“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art” – Frederic Chopin
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” – Jack Kerouac
