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It... [abstract structure] is a beautiful thing, and sometimes all that matters is that it's a beautiful thing.

— Eugenia Cheng Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi (2016)

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Mathematics is the study of anything that obeys the rules of logic, using the rules of logic.

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This is the point of understanding the abstract structures inside things.

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The trouble with this is that nothing behaves logically.

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Math, unfortunately is presented in this very ingressive way, despite the fact that when you get to the research level, it's very congressive.

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I don't believe that one should have anything without sharing it, and that includes knowledge, money, food, love...

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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