Abstraction Quote by Fulton J. Sheen

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

A study, by its very nature, is an abstraction.

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

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

The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not…

— Sigmund Freud

A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis,…

— Jacob Bronowski

“Any event or group of events may be viewed from different degrees of abstraction. A man jumps from a bridge. The psychologists make abstraction…

— Fulton J. Sheen

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

— Stephen Dunn

“Science may be defined as the reduction of multiplicity to unity. It seeks to explain the endlessly diverse phenomena of nature by ignoring the…

— Aldous Huxley

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a…

— Bernard Beckett

Science is a particular way of thinking about things.

— Lilian Katz

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a…

— Tom G. Palmer