Abstract Quote by Tom G. Palmer

To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a…

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

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

— Stephen Dunn

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

— Robert Genn

Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.

— Eric Maisel

I don't like the word 'abstractions' very much because most people don't think in abstractions. That is too difficult for them. They think in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

— Jerry Saltz

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

— Edsger Dijkstra

I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it

— Alexander Stepanov

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

— Eric Fischl

I'm not an abstractionist completely.

— Cy Twombly

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

— Henry Moore