“The certainty of mathematics depends on its complete abstract generality.” — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
To be brutally honest, for much of that time, I was the only person in the world with Parkinson's. Of course, I… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
I've learnt over the years to always be thinking of titles and ideas that I try to put across with just a… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
I am an abstract artist in the sense that I abstract. I cannot be called non-figurative while I am still interested in… — Sean William Scott Copy Share Image
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in… — William James Copy Share Image
We [Americans] move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and asserting… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception… — William James Copy Share Image
Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject… — Raymond Louis Wilder Copy Share Image
I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Fear is the deep motive of abstract art - fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things.… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I'm sad to admit that I have very, very few memories of my father because, not only did he die when I… — Lux Pascal Copy Share Image
There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Obama's attitude toward the rule of law is apparent in the words he used to describe what he is looking for in… — Michael Barone Copy Share Image
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of… — Gustave Moreau Copy Share Image
Compared with men, it is probable that brutes neither attend to abstract characters, nor have associations by similarity. Their thoughts probably pass… — William James Copy Share Image
Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were… — Larry Rivers Copy Share Image
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