Abstraction Quote by William Cecil Dampier

“Immediately on my arrival at the Project I began studying linguistics, because that seemed imperative to me. I was soon amazed to learn that,…

— Stanisław Lem

Metaphysics is the study of the most general nature and basic structure of reality, and therefore the concepts of metaphysics, concepts like time, space,…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for…

— Alexis Carrel

Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous universe ruled…

— Isaac Asimov

“With the 'Knowledge' [Gnan] ‘we’ give, peace will prevail. But it won’t do without understanding this Vignan, the spiritual science. Will a scientific experiment…

— Dada Bhagwan

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for…

— Alexis Carrel

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

— Johan Huizinga

Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such…

— Anonymous

Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in real time.

— Sendhil Mullainathan

“To think is to forget differences, generalize, make abstractions.”

— Angela Harris

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

— Philipp Meyer