Constructs Quotes
On ideas, frameworks, and how we build meaning.
These quotes use 'constructs' to describe how ideas and structures are built, comparing nature's atoms to a builder's bricks and describing journalism as something that constructs a temporary, implied order out of disorder. Readers can explore more in our Brain quotes.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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.
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Let us think of Nature as a builder, making all that we see out of atoms of a limited number of kinds, just as the builder of a house constructs it out of so many different kinds of things: bricks,...
It is generally believed that our science is empirical and that we draw our concepts and our mathematical constructs from the empirical data. If this were the whole truth, we should, when entering into a new field, introduce only such...
Able Quotes
Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.
I think you feel more liberated in a foreign country. You're more open. You understand less about the social constructs that exist in a certain place, so you take people more at face value, and you're also taken more at...
The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.
Well, I believe in the idea of 'normal' in the way that I believe in the idea of logic. Or the idea of character. All of these ethical constructs are just that: constructs.
Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.
Believe Quotes
When an actor constructs reality, it has to be riveting and entertaining. There has to be an emotional connect with the audience.
In Brazil, the one who wears 10 constructs the attacks. That is what I will try to do here. The number I have at Liverpool does not give me any added pressure. The pressure I have is to play well...
I know the importance of the number 10. In Brazil, the one who wears 10 constructs the attacks.
The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that contains it: its unity is variable and relative. As soon as one questions that unity, it loses its...
Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.
Brain Quotes
A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.
I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing.
The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions.
Neil Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, building layer upon layer, including all kinds of sweet and sour in the mix.
Families are not merely constructs of outdated convention, and traditional marriage laws were not based on animosity toward homosexuals. Rather, I believe that the traditional family structure - centered on a lawful union between one man and one woman -...
Life Quotes
There's always been a quiet conversation and joke that if you're not hard, if you're not from impoverished neighborhoods, if you're not certain constructs of a black stereotype, then you not black.
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Other entries question whether scientific concepts are purely drawn from empirical data or partly constructed, and argue that a book's meaning is not fixed by its physical form alone. Together they treat 'constructs' as a way of examining how knowledge is built.
