Quotes About Abstraction

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think

But in the complicated parts of formal logic it is always one order of magnitude harder to tell what an object can do than to produce the object.

Philosophical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from concepts; mathematical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from the construction of concepts.

To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admixture of sensible things and of every spurious ornament of reward or self-love. How much she then eclipses everything else that appears charming to the affections, every one may readily perceive with the least exertion of his reason, if it be not wholly spoiled for abstraction.

I was brimming with anger and hatred. I hated, not society, puny sociologists' abstraction, I hated the universe. I wanted to cause it pain in return for the pain it caused me.

But you are metaphysical, Otto. You ought to think about her in more simple terms.

Could he tell her any of this? Of course not. Could he tell her that women almost never qualified for Eternity because, for some reason he did not understand (Computers might, but he himself certainly did not), their abstraction from Time was from ten to a hundred times as likely to distort Reality as was the abstraction of a man.

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

I turn aside with a shudder of horror from this lamentable plague of functions which have no derivatives.

As you try to tweak your sleep one way or the other, you might be, you might be doing great - you might do better at remembering details of an event, but you might end up being poorer at abstracting the gist or the rules associated with it.

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.

We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

Plane geometry is sort of the key course where you learn about proving things and abstraction.

When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.

If creators of Christian culture hope to produce work that will bear good fruit, we must draw our life from the true source - our living Savior. He is real. He is present. But all too often we reduce him to an abstraction, giving him intellectual assent, but not our hearts.

Desejo é um pensamento, um impulso. É nebuloso e efêmero. É abstrato e não tem nenhum valor até ser transformado em sua contraparte física. A imaginação sintetizada é a que será usada com mais frequência no processo de transformar desejo em dinheiro, mas vão surgir circunstâncias e situações que exigem o uso da imaginação criativa também.

Almost anything around us of significance is hard to grasp linguistically.

The more you summarize, the more order you put in, the less randomness. Hence the same condition that makes us simplify pushes us to think that the world is less random than it actually is. And

Out of sight, out of mind: we harbor a natural, even physical, scorn of the abstract.