“Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.”

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.

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.

The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.

People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.

I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.

There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.

Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.

If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.

People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.

Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.

I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.

I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.

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.

I wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.

People don’t hurt what they love.

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.