The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
We all want explanations for why we behave as we do and for the ways the world around us functions. Even when… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A good soul like a good body should be as unobtrusive as possible; in so far as it functions properly, it should… — C. E. M. Joad Copy Share Image
Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up. Once it's done, fortunately, it… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be… — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
...who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember. — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Exercise is the single most powerful tool you have to optimize your brain function…exercise has a profound impact on cognitive abilities and… — John Ratey Copy Share Image
One is not quite certain that creativeness in the arts, literature, and science functions best in an environment of absolute freedom. Chances… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
My peripheral vision has been severely limited because of my diabetes, which means I can see just fine looking straight ahead. But… — Mary Tyler Moore Copy Share Image
In the course of normal speaking the inhibitory function of the will is continuously directed to bringing the course of ideas and… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don't function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They're not religious. Religions form… — Frederick Lenz 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 function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production by exploiting an invention or, more generally, an untried… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
If the human intellect is allowed to impose a preconceived pattern on society, if our powers of reasoning are allowed to lay… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes love burns so hot in your veins that it consumes all rational thought. You become a walking shell that can no… — Teresa Mummert Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself… — Bassem Youssef Copy Share Image
The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours. — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is… — Francois Le Lionnais Copy Share Image
While I think men in general should not fuss over how they look, I do feel as though they should make more… — Thom Browne Copy Share Image
The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
When man has mastered money he shall have mastered not only his economic problem of prosperity but also his political problem, for… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many. Their place is not on the periphery of daily life,… — John D. Rockefeller III Copy Share Image
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