Laura Méndez

“I also fell in love with Borges. He is a mathematician’s writer. His short stories are like mathematical proofs, delicately constructed and with ideas laced together effortlessly. Each step is taken with precision and watertight logic, yet the narrative is full of surprising twists and turns.”
― Marcus du Sautoy, Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature

“Lo rememoro siempre que contemplo los payasos que pintó Rouault: esos pobres bufones que, al terminar su parte, en la soledad del carromato se quitan las lentejuelas y regresan a la opacidad de lo cotidiano, donde los ancianos sabemos que la vida es imperfecta, que las historias infantiles con Buenos y Malvados, Justicia e Injusticia, Verdad y Mentira, son finalmente nada más que eso: inocentes sueños. La dura realidad es una desoladora confusión de herniosos ideales y torpes realizaciones, pero siempre habrá algunos empecinados, héroes, santos y artistas, que en sus vidas y en sus obras alcanzan pedazos del Absoluto, que nos ayudan a soportar las repugnantes relatividades.”
― Ernesto Sabato, Antes del fin

“The Goldberg Variations is a good example of how symmetry is not just a physical property but pervades many abstract structures.”
― Marcus du Sautoy, Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature

“O my brothers, I dedicate and direct you to a new nobility: you shall become procreators and cultivators and sowers of the future — verily, not to a nobility that you might buy like shopkeepers and with shopkeepers' gold: for whatever has its price has little value. Not whence you came shall henceforth constitute your honor, but whither you are going! Your will and your foot which has a will to go over and beyond yourselves — that shall constitute your new honor.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche