Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
AGNES DENESOne 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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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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet. It’s difficult.
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And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That’s why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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 study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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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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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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