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