Abstract Quote by Timothy Gowers

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

— Claes Oldenburg

Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source…

— Eric Temple Bell

The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.

— Ad Reinhardt

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point…

— Hermann Weyl

“The physical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts there is no higher knowledge than the empirical knowledge of scientific phenomena. The mathematical method…

— Fulton J. Sheen

In the realm of ideas, of mental objects, those ideas whose properties are reproducible are called mathematical objects, and the study of mental objects…

— Philip J. Davis

“Objective mathematical notions must be thought of as timeless entities and are not to be regarded as being conjured into existence at the moment…

— Roger Penrose

“Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable…

— Melvin Schwartz

“The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.”

— Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

— Piet Mondrian

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.

— Ben Shahn

“The abstract and the concrete side of operations are opposites, but you can't have one without the other, if, that is, you want get…

— David Keirsey