Abstraction Quotes

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 ...

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 ...