There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but exist independently of us. In a moment of clarity, one can at most discover that they are there and take them into account. Long before there were people on the earth, crystals were already growing in the earth's crust. On one day or another, a human being first came across such a sparkling morsel of regularity lying on the ground or hit one with his stone tool and it broke off and fell at his feet, and he picked it up and regarded it in his open hand, and he was amazed.
I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. - M. C. Escher
I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.
- M. C. Escher
So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen. - M. C. Escher
So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.
We adore chaos because we love to produce order. - M. C. Escher
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? - M. C. Escher
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems. - M. C. Escher
I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.
To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am. - M. C. Escher
To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am.
I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check. - M. C. Escher
I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check.
It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say. - M. C. Escher
It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.
My work is a game, a very serious game. - M. C. Escher
My work is a game, a very serious game.
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