Quotes About Abstraction

Se puede llegar a morir de abstracción

Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors.

I'm a Libra. I'm happy to be an air sign, but I do think I have a little too much air in my chart as a whole - some more water would be useful, especially in my personal life, as an emotional counterweight to all that abstraction.

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.

To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.

In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.

About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract.

Very few of us in our saner moments believe that the particular postulates that some logicians have dreamed up create the numbers - no, most of us believe that the real numbers are simply there and that it has been an interesting, amusing, and important game to try to find a nice set of postulates to account for them.

In cultural production, Levi-Strauss famously declares, food is both good to eat (bonne a manger) and good to think with (bonne a penser). He means this literally: cooking food begets the idea of heating for other purposes; people who share parts of a cooked deer begin to think they can share parts of a heated house; the abstraction he is a warm person (in the sense of sociable) then becomes possible to think.14 These are domain shifts.

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.

Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of subordinate spirits, has been a dispute.

True leaders have so much power they are willing to give it away. Power is not a fixed, quantifiable sum; instead it is an unlimited abstraction which grows as it is shared.

In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.

We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

Are all things quantifiable, and all numbers fraught with poetic possibility?

The square root sign is a generous symbol, it gives shelter to all the numbers.

If that were the case, they wouldn't be so difficult to understand and there'd be no need for mathematicians.

All services offered by a module should be available through a uniform notation, which does not betray whether they are implemented through storage or through computation.

Time is an abstraction of eternity. A glimpse, for mortals, of what could be if we spend ours wisely in life.