Abstracting Quotes

11 quotes by 10 authors

We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead… — William James
I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can… — Willem de Kooning
The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material world,… — Hilary Putnam
The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive. — Linus Torvalds
When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg. — Pablo Picasso
It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty,… — William McFee
Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between… — Joseph Stalin
The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work… — Lawrence Hargrave
It is possible to claim only through extrapolation, by abstracting, by redrawing the man from his voyage of his own imaginary Destiny that the Creating… — Sorin Cerin

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