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And to get there, we all need to reimagine marine conservation as a narrative of abundance and empowerment, not of austerity and alienation; a movement guided by the people who depend on healthy seas for their survival, not by abstract scientific values.
In fact this isn't just abstract.
He developed a radical alternative system of engaging the smallest children with the most abstract ideas through physical forms of play.
Now, a lot of people have heard of dark matter, but even if you have heard of it, it probably seems abstract, far away, probably even irrelevant.
If we describe the near future as 10, 20, 15 years from now, that means that what we do today is going to be critically important, because in the year 2015, in the year 2020, 2025, the world our society is going to be building on, the basic knowledge and abstract ideas, the discoveries that we came up with today, just as all these wonderful things we're hearing about here at the TED conference that we take for granted in the world right now, were really knowledge and ideas that came up in the 50s, the 60s and the 70s.
When I'm behind the camera, I notice the smallest details: the layers of light in the mountains as the light fades at the end of the day; the shapes that nature so expertly makes, abstract and yet completely perfect.
And you could have them engaged in some emotional task or social behavior or abstract reasoning, things you could never study in mice.
And I don't mean that in an abstract sense; I mean it rather literally.
Now, I've talked about the patient as if the patient is, somehow, someone abstract outside this room.
If you think of the great buildings, of the cathedrals, of the temples, of the pyramids, of pagodas, of cities in India and beyond, you think of how incredible this is that that was realized not by some abstract idea, but by people.
So again, the evasion of that sphere, which has been so endemic to that sort of pure architecture, the autonomous architecture that is just an abstract object has never appealed to me.
And this project here, I was working with the great abstract vocalist, Jaap Blonk.
You know, you're going to have these kind of blurry spots like this that maybe only resemble eyes in a very very abstract way.
Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.
Well, think of a cue like the smell of baking bread, or a more abstract cue like a 20-pound note.
At first glance, this painting may appear to be an impossible, abstract image.
This metamorphosis of natural subjects into abstract geometry is commonplace in the work of Georgia O’Keeffe— the revolutionary American painter and sculptor.
Unlike her previous teachers, Arthur Wesley Dow urged his students to focus on more abstract representations of light, shape, and color.
These lessons manifested in O’Keeffe’s first series of abstract drawings.
Earlier European painters in the Cubist tradition had employed rigid geometry to abstract external subjects.
And one of the art forms that elicited the interest of the agency, and had thus come under question, is abstract expressionism.
We think in abstract terms, we think in movement.
And here we see Galois starting to develop a language to see the substance of the things unseen, the sort of abstract idea of the symmetry underlying this physical object.
The people and the chairs are very different, but the number, the abstract idea of the number, is the same.
But, using the language of Galois, we can understand that the underlying abstract symmetries of these things are actually the same.
But this language allows us to say that they are representations of the same symmetrical abstract object, which we call 4-4-2.
And in that crystal moment of awareness of first light as the Sun begins to bathe the slopes of the stunningly beautiful landscape, suddenly everything they have learned in the abstract is affirmed in stunning glory.
And this is not in some abstract metaphorical sense.
It's not in the abstract; it's the interaction with the environment.
And one of my big concerns with a lot of policy things today is things are getting too abstract.
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