Abstract Quotes

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Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the science of electromagnetics, in spite… — Oliver Heaviside
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot,… — Gary Shteyngart
The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a… — James G. Frazer
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events. — Teresa de Lauretis
I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper was by Dorothy… — Paul Halmos
Some people think I am an issue-oriented writer, but I've never said to myself, I'm gong to write about such-and-such an issue - that would… — Suzan-Lori Parks
The culturally specific, in particular, the American porch play that American writers have cherished and loved for many years in terms of their new writing,… — Stephen Daldry
We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just through seeing but… — William Thurston
Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same… — Bertrand Russell
The Human subject is the most important thing. My work is abstract in the sense of having been designed and composed, but it is not… — Jacob Lawrence
My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me,… — J M Coetzee
Art - when it is really doing what it should do - teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to actually think about… — Bill T. Jones
A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is… — Alfred North Whitehead
Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness.… — Walter Pater
Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on their essential message:… — Jonathan Franzen
Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject in the early… — Raymond Louis Wilder
Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have sunk from theism… — Kenny Smith
I am caught in a terrific bind of characterologically and rationally needing to think in the most comprehensive terms possible, forming a continuous system of… — Kenny Smith
One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas… — Robert Smithson
It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or… — Elizabeth Hawes

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