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.
AGNES DENESMy work is about helping humanity.
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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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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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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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I always was alone. And I’m alone today. It’s fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It’s fascinating because you learn a new field each time.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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