Steven Wright

The things I talk about and explain couldn't happen - yet, they don't seem impossible - you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane - and it's trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

American Comedian

Jhumpa Lahiri

When I write a book, characters come to life for me somewhere at the back of my head. I strive to make them flesh and blood in an abstract way, in words.

American Author

Gulzar

NASA is my favorite website. The universe with its abstract nature attracts me. The abstract element in my poetry comes from there.

Indian Poet

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

German Scientist

Stephen Hawking

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

English Physicist

James J. Gibson

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.

American Psychologist

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

American Writer

James Balog

Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.

American Photographer

Twyla Tharp

I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.

American Dancer

Lance Henriksen

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

American Actor

'Abstract' as an adjective means relating to ideas that are not physical objects.

Intangible Ideas

Often used in discussing philosophy or deep topics where concrete examples are not easy to provide.

Philosophical Usage

In academia, an 'abstract' is a mini-version of the entire study or paper.

Research Overview

An 'abstract' in academic papers must capture the essence while being concise.

Concise Summary

As a verb, 'abstract' means to reduce complexity by focusing on the main ideas.

Simplify Thoughts

'Abstract' in art encourages personal interpretation rather than depicting reality.

Artistic Interpretation

Abstract art uses colors and forms to evoke feelings without representing real objects.

Emotion Through Shapes

'Abstract' artworks do not seek to replicate reality but to represent ideas beyond it.

Beyond Literal

When you 'abstract' something, you're removing it from where it originally exists.

Separate from Source

 We know three things about intelligence. One, it's diverse. We think about the world in all the ways that we experience it. We think visually, we think in sound, we think kinesthetically. We think in abstract terms, we think in movement. Secondly, intelligence is dynamic. If you look at the interactions of a human brain,

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 from tangible things like butterflies, to abstract entities like geometric shapes. So, what does it mean for an object to be symmetric? Here's the a symmetry is a transformation that leaves that object unchanged. Okay, that sounds a bit abstract, so let's unpack it. It will help to look at a particular example,

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 Few of us think about civic life in the abstract. We think about things in relief compared to something else. Powerful citizens set the terms of that contrast. This doesn't mean being uncivil. It simply means thinking about a debate you want to have on your terms

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 Standardized tests can also have a hard time measuring abstract characteristics or skills, such as creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration. If we design a test poorly, or ask it to do the wrong job, or a job it's not very good at,

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 Their truth values are based on rules that humans created. Mathematics is thus an invented logic exercise, with no existence outside mankind's conscious thought, a language of abstract relationships based on patterns discerned by brains,

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 The point is that information affects probability. And conditional probability isn't just the stuff of abstract mathematical games. It pops up in the real world, as well. Computers and other devices use conditional probability

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 world ourselves as holders of the torch two narratives prevail one is the Promethean story it speaks of fire as technological power a fire is something abstracted from its setting perhaps by violence certainly

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 This one is about the technicalities of war. This is about the victims of war. So it like, goes from the very tangible here, - into a more abstract spiritual world. - That's right, yep. - Okay. - Yep.

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 sight, and the sense of motion. It also plays with our ability to abstract and make complex associations. Look at the following sentence. "The world was ghost-quiet,

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 What matter? -Wool. -Good boy. Griffin can also understand abstract concepts and even has the ability to use numbers. Now listen. How many?