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Scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.
— James Bryant Conant
Her elegance was in the abstract; in her gait, in her posture, even in how she breathed.
— Heru Ptah
A big practice in chaos magic is the use of sigils, which are abstract words or symbols you create and embed with your wishes.
— Sophia Amoruso
A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstractbut the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete. — Helen Rowland
I try to make concrete that which is abstract.
— Juan Gris
Historians of European royalty have written of the king's 'two bodies' : one mortal and corrupt; the other divine, abstract and timeless.
— Stacey D'Erasmo
I'm not very good at giving anyone a clear no.
— Haruki Murakami
Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind's eye and touch it through my heart.
— Debasish Mridha
Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.
— Nora Ephron
The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total.
— Margaret Atwood
Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves
— George Balanchine
Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.
— William Hazlitt
The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
— Sylvia Plath
Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.
— Anton Ehrenzweig
The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
— Arthur Stanley Eddington
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
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
— Atom Egoyan
Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art.
— Peggy Guggenheim
Fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.
— Elizabeth Bowen
Beasts abstract not.
— John Locke
Violence is not just an abstract noun.....its a way of life.
— Jean-Marc Akerele
I personally don't care for abstract art. I have always felt, 'To each his own.' There's art out there for everybody.
— Howard Terpning
We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.
— Henry Adams
This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics.
— William Vickrey
Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Don't allow your life disappear into an abstract mirage
— Sunday Adelaja
abstract himself out of the moment
— Gregory Benford
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[T]he Enneagram is, at its most abstract, a universal mandala of the self - a symbol of each of us.
— Don Richard Riso
In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.
— Lance Henriksen
Abstract truth is the eye of reason.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.
— Henry A. Kissinger
The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.
— James J. Gibson
I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.
— Paulo Coelho
Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The negotiations were simultaneously cerebral and physical, abstract and personal, something like a combination of chess and mountain climbing.
— Richard Holbrooke
In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
— Ansel Adams
Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.
— Jennifer Estep
I believe that even our most abstract and philosophical views spring from an intensely personal base.
— Carl R. Rogers
Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.
— James Russell Lowell
Beauty is in the mind, not the eye.
— Agnes Martin
Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
His machines - soon to be called Turing machines - offered a bridge, a connection between abstract symbols and the physical world.
— Andrew Hodges
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
— Don DeLillo
For you are abstract,making no mistake,
slurring no word
in the rhythm you make,
the poem,
writ in the air. — Hilda Doolittle
From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.
— Pablo Picasso
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.
— Jan Tschichold
Cause sometimes what makes you two is shadow and you.
— Jayson Lobo
It's weird that apples bruise like humans. I'm glad they don't scream when you bite into them.
— Phil Lester
Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.
— Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.
— Wassily Kandinsky
Like something abstract deep within us-
— Henri Cole
Small, Local, Old, and Particular are almost always better than Big, Global, New, and Abstract.
— Rod Dreher
We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
— Rahm Emanuel
The mind is inherently embodied.Thought is mostly unconscious.
Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical. — George Lakoff
Linear's defeated form The intangible reality rise.' ~ Wanderer — Stella Coulson
I must wash myself clean with abstract thoughts, transparent as water.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.
— Gustave Moreau
I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.
— Ai Weiwei
caring is not abstract. The circle of ecological compassion we feel is enlarged by direct experience of the living world, and shrunken by its lack.
— Robin Wall Kimmerer
When you see the most dramatic shift is when you transition from an abstract idea to a slightly more material conversation,' Jony said.
— Leander Kahney
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
— Alexander Herzen
Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.
— Leo Ornstein
I do not see scales as abstract.
— James Galway
How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
— Oscar Wilde
I used to like the foods that come in abstract shapes: chicken nuggets, Fruit Roll-Ups, hot dogs.
— Ned Vizzini
But the Holy Spirit is not simply an abstract force. He is a person who empowers the people of God for the Christian life.
— R.C. Sproul
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence of forms and space.
— Joan Mitchell
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.
— Robert Smithson
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The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.
— William Irwin Thompson
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To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong.
— Isaac Asimov
I like the fact that music is more abstract.
— Bryan Ferry
Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers ... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.
— Kay WalkingStick
Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
It is sometimes wise to be abstract.
— James Clavell
