Abstraction Quote by Banesh Hoffmann

“If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all…

— Henry David Thoreau

When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

— Voltaire

In mathematics ... we find two tendencies present. On the one hand, the tendency towards abstraction seeks to crystallise the logical relations inherent in…

— David Hilbert

It were much to be desired, that when mathematical processes pass through the human brain instead of through the medium of inanimate mechanism, it…

— Ada Lovelace

Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as…

— Hermann Weyl

Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would…

— Max Bill

“Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable…

— Melvin Schwartz

An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.

— Isabel Paterson

If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.

— John Von Neumann

Now ... the basic principle of modern mathematics is to achieve a complete fusion [of] 'geometric' and 'analytic' ideas.

— Jean Dieudonne

I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.

— Joe Bradley

The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are…

— David Foster Wallace