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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

Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper. — James Gleick

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

I wear my pants on my upper torso to be abstract and different. — Thom Yorke

A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract
but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete. — Helen Rowland

I try to make concrete that which is abstract. — Juan Gris

Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself. — Julia Stiles

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

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. — George Eliot

The abstract kills, the concrete saves. — Sylvia Plath

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form. — Anton Ehrenzweig

This life we all receive is full of invisible boundaries and abstract values. — K. Conley

Music is the most abstract of the arts; dance, the most concrete. — Marty Rubin

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 ideas are connected in a systematic way to more concrete experiences. — Steven Pinker

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

[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

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home. — Dennis Prager

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value. — Ada Lovelace

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

An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer. — Marcel Duchamp

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

I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless. — Jonas Mekas

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 apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon. — Daniel Tosh

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

Creativity is a flow, an abstract and an imagination. — Pearl Zhu

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

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again. — Chris Martin

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. — Oscar Wilde

It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all. — Gerard Way

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

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. — Newt Gingrich

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

For my purpose, the non-fiction form of abstract knowledge doesn't interest me; the final, applied form of fiction, of story, does. — Ayn Rand

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body. — James Buchanan

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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"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics! — Oscar Wilde

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered. — William Irwin Thompson

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

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see. — Flannery O'Connor

I tried to put on a smile but, being too cold, I could only manage a grin. That's one reason why I don't like winter: smiles become abstract. — Elie Wiesel

The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level. — James Blake