Quotes About Abstraction

The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.

There are no creeds in mathematics.

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle.

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.

Philosophically, mathematics is not a part of science. Mathematics studies patterns, science studies nature

Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.

Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.

If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

Prejudice and ethnic strife feed off abstraction.

The attempt to understand reality apart from that action of God in and upon reality means living in anabstraction; it means failing to live in reality and vacillating between the extremes of a servile attitude toward the status quo and a protest in principle against it. Only God's becoming human makes possible an action that is genuinely in accord with reality. The world remains world. But it only does so because God has taken care of it and declared it to be under God's rule.

all thinking about human beings without Christ is unfruitful abstraction. The counterimage to the human being taken up into the form of Christ is the human being as self-creator, self-judge, and self-renewer; these people bypass their true humanity and therefore, sooner or later, destroy themselves.

Without God, all seeing and perceiving of things and laws become abstraction, a separation from both origin and goal.

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.

The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.

Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media.