Inelegant Quotes

“If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by the inelegant, by the ignoble, by the unethical or by the unscientific people!”

“Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.”

“Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.”

“The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire.”

“What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.”

“In fact, biology is chaos. Biological systems are the product not of logic but of evolution, an inelegant process. Life does not choose the logically best design to meet a new situation. It adapts what already exists...The result, unlike the clean straight lines of logic, is often irregular, messy.”