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M. C. Escher: "Ada sesuatu dalam undang-undang semacam itu yang membua...

"Ada sesuatu dalam undang-undang semacam itu yang membuat nafas pergi. Mereka bukan penemuan atau penemuan pikiran manusia, tetapi ada secara independen dari kita. Dalam momen kejelasan, paling banyak orang dapat menemukan bahwa mereka ada di sana dan memperhitungkannya. Jauh sebelum ada orang di bumi, kristal sudah tumbuh di kerak bumi. Pada suatu hari atau lain, seorang manusia pertama kali menemukan sepotong teratur berkilau seperti berbaring di tanah atau memukul satu dengan alat batunya dan itu pecah dan jatuh di kakinya, dan dia mengambilnya dan menganggapnya di tempat terbuka tangan, dan dia kagum."

--- M. C. Escher

Versi Bahasa Inggris

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.