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