Formalism Quotes
15 quotes by 15 authors
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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
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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
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The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism.
— Cornell Capa
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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
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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
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Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing.
— Sergei Prokofiev
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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
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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
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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
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Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism.
— Robert Heilbroner
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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
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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
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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
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Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics
— Werner Heisenberg
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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: