[The 'Abstract' mentioned in the last sentence of the preceding letter was in fact the 'Origin of Species,' on which he now set to work. In his 'Autobiography' he speaks of beginning to write in September, but in his Diary he wrote, "July 20 to August 12, at Sandown, began Abstract of Species book." "September 16, Recommenced Abstract." The book was begun with the idea that it would be published as a paper, or series of papers, by the Linnean Society, and it was only in the late autumn that it became clear that it must take the form of an independent volume.]英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-1》
...You say you should like to see my MS., but you did read and approve of my long Glacial chapter, and I have not yet written my Abstract on the whole of the Geographical Distribution, nor shall I begin it for two or three weeks. But either Abstract or the old MS. I should be DELIGHTED to send you, especially the Abstract chapter...英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-1》
Amongst all nations, generic and abstract terms form the basis of language. I do not, therefore, affect to expel these terms from democratic languages; I simply remark that men have an especial tendency, in the ages of democracy, to multiply words of this kind - to take them always by themselves in their most abstract acceptation, and to use them on all occasions, even when the nature of the discourse does not require them.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-2》
An improved Form for a Spin-Ticket, with its Abstract; which Abstract is to be cut off from the Ticket, and fastened to the Bundle of Yarn or Thread.英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
Naturalisation on Indian mountains hardly quite fair, as mountains are small islands in the land) I must strike my colours. I should be glad to hear whether what I have written very obscurely on this point produces ANY effect on you; for I want to clear my mind, as perhaps I should put a sentence or two in my abstract on this subject. (70/4. Abstract was Darwin's name for the "Origin" during parts of 1858 and 1859.)英文原著 · 《More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I》
At the opposite end from magnetism, which as linear spatiality and the ideal contrast of extremes is
the abstract concept of the shape, stands its abstract totality the sphere, the shape of the real
absence of shape, of fluid indeterminacy, and of the indifferent elasticity of the parts.英文原著 · 《Philosophy of Nature》
And we are able to create an emergent-based Abstraction of that sparrow, Which closely approximates the sparrow itself, Accounting for migration patterns, Wind, weather, and other variables.美剧 · 《Billions》
We can create a similar abstraction of a stock, Combining the information from the specific etfs Which represent its underlying dependencies.美剧 · 《Billions》
And if we apply this to the stock, We can predict its delta, Following the path of its abstracted self Because nature follows abstraction.美剧 · 《Billions》
So your multitude of computers and servers could solve some abstract math equations resulting in the mining of Bitcoin.美剧 · 《Billions》