Spatial Quotes

• It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

  Stephen Hawking

  Reading, Men, Multitasking

  "Return of the time lord" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

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• Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Memories, Perception, Together

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• I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects.

  Arthur Ganson

  Engineering, Ratios, Speed

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• The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.

  El Lissitzky

  Badass, Inspiration, Bad Ass

  El Lissitzky (1968). “El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts”

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• I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.

  Anish Kapoor

  Jobs, Thinking, Space

  "Anish Kapoor: in Conversation with John Tusa". Interview with John Tusa, anishkapoor.com.

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• We invent mind-space inside our own heads as well as the heads of others ... we assume these 'spaces' without question. They are a part of what it is to be conscious. Moreover, things that in the physical-behavioural world that do not have a spatial quality are made to have such in consciousness. Otherwise we cannot be conscious of them.

  Julian Jaynes

  Space, Mind, Quality

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• Spatial intelligence is virtually left out of formal education. In kindergarten we give children blocks and sand with which to build. Then we take those things away for the next twelve years of their education and expect kids to be architects and engineers.

  Ann Lewin-Benham

  Education, Children, Block

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• Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors and tones, or with the devaluation of spatial relationships and so on.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Space, Color

  Paul Klee (1967). “Paul Klee, 1879-1940: A Retrospective Exhibition”

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• If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.

  Edmund Husserl

  Animal, Reality, Law

  Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• The theory has to be interpreted that extra dimensions beyond the ordinary four dimensions the three spatial dimensions plus time are sufficiently small that they haven't been observed yet.

  Edward Witten

  Time, Ordinary, Three

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• Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.

  Edmund Husserl

  Events, World, Way

  Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as we seem to be able to move through metamorphosis into our own imaginations - a super civilization spread throughout space and time. Our future is a mystery, our destiny is to live in the imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Children, Moving, Past

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• I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.

  M. C. Escher

  Fun, Two, Example

  "On Being a Graphic Artist" by M. C. Escher, 1981.

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• If the universe is a non-spatial computer, a 'time machine' is a program that allows a user to have the same (ontologically non-spatial) feelings or experiences that occurred or s/he merely feels to have occurred in the past, with an in-built function to have different feelings or experiences than those of the past, and thus creating a possibility to change the past or to rewrite history in a pseudo sense.

  Kedar Joshi

  Past, Creating, Feelings

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• I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.

  Howard Gardner

  Believe, Years, Musical

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• With dancing, you have to know spatial movement with somebody. It is steps. It's literally steps and knowing how close to be or how far away. You have to have the beat in the right place with the camera.

  Channing Tatum

  Knowing, Dancing, Cameras

  "Channing Tatum Interview THE EAGLE". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 9, 2011.

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• Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Scales, Linear, Large Scale

  "Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick: Revised Edition". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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• I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.

  Sloane Crosley

  Zero, Mean, Skills

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.24, Penguin

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• Just think of the opportunities we can unlock by making education as addictive as a video game. This type of experiential, addictive learning improves decision-making skills and increases the processing speed and spatial skills of the brain. When was the last time your child asked for help with a video game?

  Naveen Jain

  Children, Opportunity, Thinking

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• There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

  Brian Eno

  Musical, Territory, Sound

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• Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer.

  Kedar Joshi

  Technology, Meditation, Computer

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• The non-spatial nature of consciousness makes it possible for any apparently unconscious entity to be conscious, and vice versa.

  Kedar Joshi

  Vices, Consciousness, Vice Versa

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• I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms, even though that is how it sometimes appears. My subjects are also often playful: I cannot refrain from demonstrating the nonsensicalness of some of what we take to be irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure to deliberately mix together objects of two and three dimensions, surface and spatial relationships, and to make fun of gravity.

  M. C. Escher

  Beautiful, Fun, Two

  "Escher on Escher: exploring the infinite". Book by J. W. Vermeulen, H. N. Abrams, 1989.

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• I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance of images which have accumulated over millions of years of living development and become fixed in the organism....Beside this picture I would like to place the spectacle of the starry heavens at night, for the only equivalent of the universe within is the universe without; and just as I reach this world through the medium of the body, so I reach that world through the medium of the psyche.

  Carl Jung

  Night, Years, Psychics

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• A [spatial, temporal] work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in an art magazine. Then this record of the no longer extant installation, along with accretions of information after the fact, became the basis for its fame, and to a large extent its economic value.

  Dan Graham

  Art, Economic Value, Records

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