Data Quote by Francis Galton

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

— John Dewey

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

— William James

By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of their species.

— Barry Mazur

In the first stage of insight-building, all that researchers can do is observe phenomena. Second, they classify the phenomena in a way that helps…

— Clayton Christensen

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

— Claes Oldenburg

Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.

— Edmund Husserl

When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This is often…

— Rudolf Arnheim

If you analyse the function of an object, its form often becomes obvious.

— Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

— Alain de Botton

“objects are only a set of statistical likelihoods – a cloud of qualities-in-potential, yet to be distilled into any specific form.  We can never…

— Richard Bensam

An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which.

— G. E. M. Anscombe