Agnes Denes on bees
Agnes Denes39 quotes“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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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Agnes DenesAgnes Denes People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
Agnes DenesAgnes Denes I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
Agnes DenesAgnes Denes There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
Agnes DenesAgnes Denes Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
Agnes DenesAgnes Denes If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
Agnes DenesAgnes Denes People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
Agnes DenesAgnes Denes Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
Agnes DenesAgnes Denes I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
Agnes DenesAgnes Denes I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
Agnes DenesAgnes Denes One thing that’s paramount in my life is that I am alone. I’m a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don’t feel lonely.
Agnes DenesAgnes Denes I wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
Agnes DenesAgnes Denes People don’t hurt what they love.
Agnes DenesAgnes Denes I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
Agnes DenesAgnes Denes People always understand everything in retrospect.
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