Abstraction Quote by E. H. Moore

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

— Robert Genn

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

— Stephen Dunn

All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.

— John Green

... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of the analogy,…

— Mary Hesse

“Now, if you believe that the universe is not arbitrary, but is governed by definite laws, you ultimately have to combine the partial theories…

— Stephen Hawking

“To generalize is to be an idiot," said Blake. Perhaps he went too far. But to generalize is to be a finite mind. Generalities…

— C.S. Lewis

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

— Claes Oldenburg

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

— Anonymous

In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the…

— Tony Hoare

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of…

— David Bohm