Abstraction Quote by Gaston Bachelard

Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes by intuition.

— E. O. Wilson

The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all…

— Donald Woods Winnicott

In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is…

— Hans Kramers

Concepts are mental images.

— Paul Virilio

“The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is…

— Werner Heisenberg

We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have progressed enough…

— E. O. Wilson

In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds a certain number that…

— Giuseppe Peano

All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.

— Albert Einstein

“If it be true that there can be no metaphysics transcending human reason, it is no less true that there can be no empirical…

— C.G. Jung

The separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to the advancement of knowledge. If we want to understand nature,…

— Paul Feyerabend

“Creative thought in science is exactly this - not a mechanical collection on of facts and intuition, bias, and insight from other fields. Science,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts…

— Niels Bohr