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The Simplistics of Beauty are Not Very Simple

12/31/2007 01:40 PM
The Simplistics of Beauty are Not Very Simple
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“Beauty resides at some tense edge where order and disorder, symmetry and asymmetry contend with each other in our soul, with both emotion and cognition entering into that struggle.” Roald Hoffman, Chemist, Poet and Playwright at Skidmore.
 
This was Mr. Hoffman’s response to why he picked the word “beautiful” to describe a molecule. I thought that was an interesting explanation of beautiful, only in that unless you come across something so basic that it is perfect, “simplicity” is not usually the foundation for beauty in anything.
 
Human beings are many, many things, but simple is not one of them and it is my belief that they don’t gravitate toward the simple either. There has been for many years the explanation of beauty, that in humans it often comes in symmetry and ratios of 36-24-36, and while these ratios might suggest a basic equation, there is nothing basic about it. Symmetry in the face, glowing skin and good hair all suggest health; 36-24-36 inevitably suggests a person that is fully capable of furthering their genetic make up… And, let’s be honest there isn’t anything simple about that either.
 
Another interesting position in this article was that the length of the ring finger to the index finger in females suggested handsomeness; or a lack there of. A ring finger longer than the index finger equates the perfect amount of handsome, masculine features in a female as to make her attractively “handsome” but not overbearing. I’ve found myself looking at ring fingers since- which is interesting, because didn’t I just beauty is more than an equation?


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