We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small number of organs or… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
There are several patients - there are thousands of patients, tens of thousands of patients, that carry either a stimulator in the… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
Today, you have neuroscientists working on a genetic, behavioural or cognitive level, and then you have informaticians, chemists and mathematicians. They all… — Henry Markram Copy Share Image
It used to hurt when people ran down my films. I used to feel inferior. I wouldn't go to parties or award… — Rohit Shetty Copy Share Image
The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people. — Al-Waleed bin Talal Copy Share Image
I promise to myself I will make cars that work and functions worldwide. — Winfried Vahland Copy Share Image
Conservatives believe the economy functions better if the rich have more money and everyone else has less. But they're wrong. It's just… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts… — Rene Cassin Copy Share Image
If children do not understand the Constitution, they cannot understand how our government functions, or what their rights and responsibilities are as… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The United States will continue to be number one, and I do not see any country or group of countries taking the… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
In L.A., wives can fly on the plane; with the Yankees, they can't. With other teams, the wives always have functions to… — Gary Sheffield Copy Share Image
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful. — Robert Shea Copy Share Image
One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can… — Stephen Wolfram Copy Share Image
We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance. — Arthur Capper Copy Share Image
Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
