"Where there is no mathematics, there is no freedom."

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Source : Edward Frenkel (2014). “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality”, p.5, Basic Books

Edward Frenkel

#Mathematics Quotes

“The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.”
“The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.”
“But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity.”
“I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.”
“Were not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, thats just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.”
“I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or propaganda. Maybe an ability to think for yourself.”

Source : "Joe Strummer: Putting a Scare Into The Hearts of All Things Corporate". Interview with Mariah Hasagawa, CRCRadio.net, 2002.
“Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.”
“I have never worn a watch. I did at 17 and it annoyed me.”

Source : "Eve Best: 'Webster is like learning to eat with a chainsaw'". Interview With Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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