Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
AGNES DENESI’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
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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 hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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I wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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And I even like my own company. But when I’m alone, it’s to read or write. I’m in my thoughts. Mostly I’m learning.
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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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