Formalism Quotes

15 quotes by 15 authors

• If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago. ...… — Fritjof Capra
• On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to hide behind formalism… — Jean Dieudonne
• The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism. — Cornell Capa
• It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language… — Raymond Chandler
• The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether in its history… — Louis Althusser
• Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing. — Sergei Prokofiev
• Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but… — Max Bill
• We should bear the intelligence and taste of the architect or the gardener in how we shape the becoming of our self. Too much precision… — Kenny Smith
• Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism. — Robert Heilbroner
• But it is certainly not possible to insist on one hand that the formalism is complete and to insist on the other hand that its… — Karl Popper
• Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the… — George Edward Woodberry
• There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says, 'now… — Alain Robbe-Grillet
• Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics — Werner Heisenberg
• The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism. — Felix Adler

Who Wrote These Formalism Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 15 Formalism Quotes as follows:

• 1 Formalism Quote by Fritjof Capra
• 1 Formalism Quote by Jean Dieudonne
• 1 Formalism Quote by Cornell Capa
• 1 Formalism Quote by Raymond Chandler
• 1 Formalism Quote by Louis Althusser
• 1 Formalism Quote by Sergei Prokofiev
• 1 Formalism Quote by Max Bill
• 1 Formalism Quote by Kenny Smith
• 1 Formalism Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Formalism Quote by Robert Heilbroner
• 1 Formalism Quote by Karl Popper
• 1 Formalism Quote by George Edward Woodberry
• 1 Formalism Quote by Alain Robbe-Grillet
• 1 Formalism Quote by Werner Heisenberg
• 1 Formalism Quote by Felix Adler