"Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and……" — Daniel Tammet
"Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know."
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56 Quotes by Daniel Tammet
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Moment by moment throughout our lifetime, our brains hum with the work of making meaning: weaving together many thousands of…
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The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions…
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We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name…
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One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first…
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I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustn’t be rushed or seized upon…
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I have tried to be more flexible, but I always end up feeling more uncomfortable. Retaining a sense of control…
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Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single,…
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I'm inconsistent because I'm human.
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I remember as a young child, during one of my frequent trips to the local library, spending hours looking at…
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I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.
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I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts.
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When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in…
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More Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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