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.
AGNES DENESI study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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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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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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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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