Spatial Quotes

47 quotes by 42 authors

Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form. The distinction is… — Louis Pasteur
As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the things… — Wynn Bullock
An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature. — Charles Olson
At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains; the untethered balloon,… — Robert Grudin
Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years... has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in particular Darwin. Many… — David Stoddart
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these… — Edmund Husserl
Architecture arises out of our need to shelter the human animal in a spatial environment and to enclose the social animal in a group space.… — Robert L. Geddes
I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form — Anish Kapoor
I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms, even though that… — M.C. Escher
Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in… — Michel de Certeau
I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance… — Carl Jung
As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories. — Joshua Foer
If you're walking with somebody, you're heading in the same direction, and the spatial dance you're doing is a little more cooperative. — Scott Kim
Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession… — Julian Jaynes
An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing… — Betty Edwards
The theory has to be interpreted that extra dimensions beyond the ordinary four dimensions the three spatial dimensions plus time are sufficiently small that they… — Edward Witten
...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of geometrical figures or… — Carl Gustav Hempel
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
Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial… — Edmund Husserl
When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but… — Annabelle Selldorf

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