Quotes about Conceptualization

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.

The science of mathematics treats its object as though it were something abstracted mentally, whereas it is not abstract in reality.

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.