Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
AGNES DENESPeople always understand everything in retrospect.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they’re locked into their little specializations.
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We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
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Maybe that’s why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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