Abstraction Quotes

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of vi...

What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum ...

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view o...

In asking philosophical questions, we use a reason shaped by the body, a cognitive unconscious to wh...

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we ...

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth ...

You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshe...

Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of mode...

She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an impe...

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arri...

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and ...

If our ideas and beliefs are held with an awareness of abstracting, they can be changed if found to ...

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the sourc...

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep o...

Similarities are read into nature by our nervous system, and so are structurally less fundamental th...

I was reminded of a painter friend who had started her career by depicting scenes from life, mainly ...