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At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.

— Benjamin Whorf

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— James J. Gibson

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

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

— Jerry Saltz

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

— Jerry Saltz

For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.

— Brian Greene

So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.

— Michael Polanyi

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

— Anish Kapoor

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

— Abdolkarim Soroush

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

— Josef Albers

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