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