Beauty is our weapon against nature; bởi 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 tình yêu that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that tình yêu which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
-Derek Walcott
Guided only bởi 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 bởi the art of mathematics rather than bởi any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
-E. T. chuông, bell
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