Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.
The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.
It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.
The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
The only thing that makes sense is if the universe is beautiful and simple and elegant.