Quotes About Spatial

#1. Architecture arises out of our need to shelter the human animal in a spatial environment and to enclose the social animal in a group space. In this sense architecture serves our institutions and expresses the values of our culture.

Robert L. Geddes

#2. 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

#3. ...rich geometric experiences are the most important factor in the development of children's spatial thinking and reasoning.

John A. Van De Walle

#4. The notion of displacement destabilizes spatial hierarchies of senders and receivers, and turns the issue of historical causality into one or more negotiable genealogy and interpretative communities.

Charlotte Bydler

#5. 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

#6. The homage paid to the fragment and the dismantling of the large narratives had had their spatial counterpart in the lack of integrated and conceptual vision of urban construction, and perhaps also of social construction.

Sverker Sorlin

#7. If you're sitting across the table from someone, the geometry of the situation says 'confrontation.' If you're walking with somebody, you're heading in the same direction, and the spatial dance you're doing is a little more cooperative.

Scott Kim

#8. Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.

Susanne Katherina Langer

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

Rebecca Solnit

#10. Nothing disappears completely ... In space, what came earlier continues to underpin what follows ... Pre-existing space underpins not only durable spatial arrangements, but also representational spaces and their attendant imagery and mythic narratives.

Henri Lefebvre

#11. 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

#12. The physics of the 21st century shall deal essentially with non-spatial matter and non-spatial mechanics.

Kedar Joshi

#13. What we call 'time' isn't chronological but spatial; what we call 'death' is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.

Stephane Audeguy

#14. There is only one real computer - the universe - whose hardware is made up of non-spatial states of consciousness and software is made up of superhuman as well as non-superhuman thoughts.

Kedar Joshi

#15. It takes a while for executives to understand that every company is a spatial company, fundamentally: where are our assets, where are our customers, where are our sales. But when they get it, they light up and say, 'I want to get the geographic advantage.'

Jack Dangermond

#16. There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

David Harvey

#17. 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

#18. I think what art is always doing is making us see the world so differently, and I don't mean just colors and light, but re-thinking relationships, spatial relationships, psychological relationships ... those who gravitate to the art world actually want to be puzzled.

Roselee Goldberg

#19. When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.

Annabelle Selldorf

#20. I get everything that satisfies my soul from bringing together objects that are in the world, manipulating them, working with spatial arrangements, and having things presented in the way I want to see them.

Fred Wilson

#21. The universe is a gigantic non-spatial computer.

Kedar Joshi

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

Kedar Joshi

#23. Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#24. I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal.

Portia Doubleday

#25. Last is D, the number of spatial dimensions. Due to interest in M-theory, physicists have returned to the question of whether life is possible in higher or lower dimensions.

Michio Kaku

#26. The question was, 'Is there a way of minimizing the amount of damage you're doing so that you can then study cells in a physiological manner while also studying them at high spatial and temporal resolution for a long time?'

Eric Betzig

#27. 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

#28. Ach of the bubble universes appears to have finite spatial extent when examined from the outside, but infinite spatial extent when examined from the inside.

Brian Greene

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. Mason was a first-rate spatial voyeur, an autodidact of architectural exteriors.

Geoff Manaugh

#32. First, the processes making for 'spatial equilibrium' - broadly spelled out in bourgeois location theory - are, from the Marxian perspective to be seen as part and parcel of the processes which lead to crises of accumulation.

Anonymous

#33. As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.

Joshua Foer

#34. I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.

David Hockney

#35. Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We are fortunate that the spatial and spectral resolutions of the imagery available to us are so broadly useful for archaeology.

Sarah Parcak

#36. There is no reason, therefore, so far as I am able to perceive, to deny the ultimate and absolute philosophical validity of a theory of geometry which regards space as composed of points, and not as a mere assemblage of relations between non-spatial terms.

Bertrand Russell

#37. 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

#38. When one day an expedition was sent to the spatial coordinates

Douglas Adams

#39. Four types of psychological distance can separate you from your goals: social (between yourself and other people), temporal (between the present and the future), spatial (between your physical location and faraway places), and experiential (between imagining something and experiencing it).

Anonymous

#40. This meant he belonged to a special subcategory of human called a "teenager," the chief characteristics of which were a weakened resistance to gravity, a vocabulary of grunts, a lack of spatial awareness, copious amounts of masturbation, and an unending appetite for cereal.

Matt Haig

#41. Specifically, Aristotle claims that no spatial extension (e.g. the intercurb interval AB) is 'actually infinite,' but that all such extensions are 'potentially infinite' in the sense of being infinitely divisible.

David Foster Wallace

#42. I believe that gut feelings, the sense of balance, and spatial self-perception are so firmly coupled to our biological body that we will never be able to leave it experientially on a permanent basis.

Thomas Metzinger

#43. I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness.

Hannah Ware

#44. It matters because the emerging civic structures and spatial arrangements of the digital era will profoundly affect our access to economic opportunities and public services, the character and content of public discourse,

William J. Mitchell

#45. Beyond the astral dimensions are the causal dimensions. They are not spatial or time oriented. They are planes of light, and they make up the outer limits of nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#46. Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of time.

Julian Jaynes

#47. A shudder runs through the viewer of old photographs. For they make visible not the knowledge of the original but the spatial configuration of a moment; what appears in the photograph is not the person but the sum of what can be subtracted from him or her.

Siegfried Kracauer

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

Kedar Joshi

#49. There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

David Antin

#50. At Harvard, I worked for some time as a researcher in a lab for computer graphics and spatial analysis, which is one of the birthplaces for what we do.

Jack Dangermond

#51. The type of Alzheimer's Dad has is rare - posterior cortical atrophy or PCA - and it affects his spatial awareness and the way he judges distance. His first symptoms were erratic typing and spelling, but to talk to him, you'd never know there was a problem.

Rhianna Pratchett

#52. The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.

Nate Powell

#53. Spaces may or may not invite the image - if they do, they mostly do it with their spatial layers of time ... It is then the image that takes the place of the space; the image in its own right.

Candida Hofer

#54. Gravity is neither a force nor a consequence of any space-time curvature. It is simply an orderly spatial illusion to non-spatial observer/s.

Kedar Joshi

#55. Architecture and urban design, both in their formal and spatial aspects, are seen as fundamentally configurational in that the way the parts are put together to form the whole is more important than any of the parts taken in isolation.

Bill Hillier

#56. Humans abstract and record information in five major ways: with writing, mathematical notation, painting/photography/videography, maps, and clocks - that is, we can abstract and record verbal, numerical, visual, spatial, and temporal information.

William J. Bernstein

#57. It is not that something different is seen, but that one sees differently. It is as though the spatial act of seeing were changed by a new dimension. - Carl Jung I

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#58. I'm more androgynous, because men are supposed to be more spatial, women more literal - I'm a tomboy.

Portia Doubleday

#59. Wayne Grudem, my friend and seminary professor, put it well: "God does not have size or spatial dimensions and is present at every point of space with His whole being, yet God acts differently in different places."19

James MacDonald

#60. The similarity between space and time is limpid enough that we routinely use space to represent time in calendars, hourglasses, and other time-keeping devices. And the cognitive similarity also shows up in everyday metaphors where spatial terms are borrowed to refer to time.

Steven Pinker

#61. Hey, flow charts are one thing, spatial skills another.

Cherise Sinclair

#62. The studies about differences between the sexes that you see kind of get propped up in the media are more often than not denigrating women in some way, saying that women really don't have any spatial understanding, and that's why they can't park.

Jessica Valenti

#63. An individual's ability to draw is ... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing to spatial, global processing.

Betty Edwards

#64. Google has been an amazing benefit for our business. People understand the whole world of mapping and want to do more than not get lost. They want to do spatial analytics. It's been fantastic for us.

Jack Dangermond

#65. 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

#66. Spatial working memory is impaired by stress.

Richard Davidson

#67. One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly in the world around us. That sounds like science fiction, but it is an indisputable outcome of the mathematics of string theory.

Brian Greene

#68. As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting.

David Salle

#69. Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.

Steven Holl

#70. Riemann found that in four spatial dimensions, one needs a collection of ten numbers at each point to describe its properties.

Michio Kaku

#71. Most people find it difficult to understand purely verbal concepts. [...] We employ visual and spatial metaphors for a great many everyday expressions [...] We are so visually biased that we call our wisest men visionaries!

McLuhan Marshal

#72. At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains; the untethered balloon, the blue sky, the nude figure.

Robert Grudin

#73. To be fair, it's not just cycling - the term "sporty" isn't used to describe me. I don't run unless something is chasing me, and I have some kind of visual-spatial ball deficiency.

Eileen Cook

#74. Hearing is the motion of molecules; sound is a wave in the atmosphere; solidity is the characteristic of spatial juxtaposition of atoms; smell is something given off by a body, rather than something belonging to a body.

Fulton J. Sheen

#75. Transnational corporate networks, and their resulting spatial patterns, are always in a continuous state of flux. At any one time, some parts may be growing rapidly, others may be stagnating, others may be in steep decline.

Peter Dicken

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

Peter J. Carroll

#77. There may be many Big Bangs that happened at various and far-flung locations, each creating its own swelling, spatial expanse, each creating a universe - our universe being the result of only one of those Big Bangs.

Brian Greene

#78. An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.

Charles Olson

#79. The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#80. 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

#81. As an offensive lineman, having spatial awareness is key: understanding where the quarterback is going to be and understanding what the defensive end might do depending on the play we're running.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

#82. There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

Kim Gordon

#83. So far we have done too much of 'spatial engineering'. The real thing is 'non-spatial engineering'.

Kedar Joshi

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. mental athletes said they were consciously converting the information they were being asked to memorize into images, and distributing those images along familiar spatial journeys.

Joshua Foer

#87. Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out even more richly.

Paul Klee

#88. 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

#89. Illusions ... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration.

Georges Braque

#90. In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing, for example. It's exactly the same in architecture. Architects also put together spatial episodes to make sequences.

Rem Koolhaas