Beauty is our weapon against nature; によって 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 愛 that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that 愛 which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
Derek Walcott
Guided only によって 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 によって the art of mathematics rather than によって any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
E. T. ベル
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