Chemistry Quote by Robert Boyle

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing…

— Max Bill

Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

— Juan Gris

“The second general division of names is into concrete and abstract. A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract…

— John Stuart Mill

We're stuck in the concrete age. Concrete has really become this ever-present material that's almost impossible to get away from. It's cheap, abundant, and…

— Magnus Larsson

The elements are a way to define what abstract is; and abstract is a taught as like any other than ,what to think? and…

— Jerril Thomas Abraham

Concrete is momentarily unformed matter seeking its natural completion, filling in the last corners of its allowed space, finding a form. It is possibility…

— Mark Kingwell

Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles of all things. That…

— Mary Hunter Austin

“Dialectics, Engestrom states, reverses the direction of conventional logic: instead of seeing 'concrete' phenomena as something sensually palpable and 'abstraction' as a conceptual or…

— Michael F.D. Young

Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in…

— Edith Stein

“In short, it is much easier to see a thing through from the point of view of abstract principle than from that of concrete…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe