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"The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics." - G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology (1941)
Just heard this quoted on The Infinite Monkey Cage.
Isn't the place for this the Rationality Quotes thread?
It's more to do with mathematics than rationality.
I think the quotes thread is pretty general and even mathematics quotes fit better at that place than here.
Still, I'd think that as a quote, it should be in the thread that we have that is intended specifically for quotes.