Beauty is our weapon against nature; oleh it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
-Camille Paglia
Break a vase, and the cinta that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that cinta which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
-Derek Walcott
Guided only oleh their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired oleh the art of mathematics rather than oleh any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
-E. T. bel, bell
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