I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
AGNES DENESMy work is about helping humanity.
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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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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.
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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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