People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
AGNES DENESThe tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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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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I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn’t want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.
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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 hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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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’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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