 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...  The Teaching of Mathematics in the United Kingdom - Page 594by Great Britain. Board of Education - 1912Full view - About this book
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...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...perfection such as only the greatest art can show. BERTRAND RUSSELL [LORD RUSSELL, 3RD EARL], (1872-1970) British philosopher, mathematician. The Study... | |
 | Frank Burk - Mathematics - 1997 - 316 pages
...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...perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone... | |
 | Claudia Henrion - Social Science - 1997 - 366 pages
...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...capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest an can show. . . . Real life is, to most men, a long second,best, a perpetual compromise between the... | |
 | W. Jay Wood - Religion - 2009 - 220 pages
...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...perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone... | |
 | Rutherford Aris - Mathematics - 1999 - 503 pages
...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...perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone... | |
 | Elvira Laskowski-Caujolle - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 384 pages
...true but suprême beauty - a beauty cold and austère, like that of a sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings...perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than a man, which is the touchstone... | |
 | Chester E. Finn, Jr., John T. E. Cribb, Jr., William J. Bennett - Education - 1999 - 688 pages
..."a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest artist can show." We can't necessarily expect an eighth grader struggling with an equation to be enthralled... | |
 | Peter Dodwell - Philosophy - 2000 - 263 pages
...only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings...perfection such as only the greatest art can show. 50 What has cognitive science to say in response to such an idealistic paean of praise? The answer... | |
 | Ann Banfield - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 456 pages
...beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, . . . without the gorgeous trappings of a painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable...perfection such as only the greatest art can show. (ML, 57) The analogy with sculpture emphasizes colorlessness and the tangibility that stands for form.... | |
 | Nancy Rodgers - Mathematics - 2000 - 458 pages
...sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of paintings or music, yet sublimely pure and capable of a stern...perfection such as only the greatest art can show. Bertrand R!tsse// 1872-1970 the most bizarre spaces imaginable, or unimaginable, and, before long,... | |
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