My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists': "If you want to understand function, study structure". — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in debunking myths if they are untrue. But it's also important to identify myths and how they function, what… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Digestion is one of the most delicately balanced of all human and perhaps angelic functions. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Staff officers of inharmonious disposition, irrespective of their ability, must be removed. A staff cannot function unless it is a united family. — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Stress is a form of suffering. Look at your body and see what stress does to the body and its functions -… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
We have little control over the outer weather patterns as we make our way through the landscape of a life. But we… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
To me personally the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I believe that "government", as we know it today, should pull out of most things except for law enforcement and justice, national… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I'm a young guy called 'commutative ring', but I was originally 'the ring of continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space'. Now… — Kato Copy Share Image
What would happen to the individual if all the functions of the body were placed under the control of the consciousness is… — Henry George Copy Share Image
How can you glorify God in your body, when it doesn't function right?…What makes you think the Holy Ghost wants to live… — Frederick K. C. Price Copy Share Image
Soul one might say is more imperfectly infinite than spirit, because soul tends to abolish the ego-consciousness that it absorbs or overwhelms,… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like… — Alan Cooper Copy Share Image
The same Being that fashioned the insect, whose existence is only discerned by a microscope, and gave that invisible speck a system… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
Telephones in 2020 will be archaic, relics of a bygone era-like transistor radios are today. Telephony, which will be entirely IP-based by… — Josh Quittner Copy Share Image
This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for… — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“No art takes places without inspiration. Every artist also needs effective knowledge of his or her tools (e.g., does a certain brush… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience;… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I just didn't have no edge for baseball. Once special coach Tony Oliva and former Twins coach Al Newman told me what… — Torii Hunter Copy Share Image
The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
I think melancholy is part of the natural condition, you know. Anyway, I think it's the artist's function to have their melancholy… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The iPod Shuffle was something unique for Apple: a device stripped down to a single function. — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
“The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions. — Ugo Betti Copy Share Image
Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly. — Adnan Pachachi Copy Share Image
