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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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“It is, indeed an incredible fact that what the human mind, at its deepest and most profound, perceives as beautiful finds its realization in external nature.… What is intelligible is also beautiful.”
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a lecture, "Beauty and the Quest for Beauty in Science" given at the International Symposium in recognition of Robert R. Wilson on April 27, 1979 at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois.
“All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in .”
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Chandrasekhar's Nobel lecture, in his summary of his work on black holes; Republished in: D. G. Caldi, George D. Mostow (1989) Proceedings of the Gibbs Symposium: Yale University, May 15-17, 1989 p. 230
“The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time. And since the general theory of Relativity provides only a single unique family of solutions for their descriptions, they are the simplest objects as well.”
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source