Function Quotes

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When physiologists revealed the existence and functions of hormones they not only gave increased opportunities for the activities of biochemists but in particular gave a… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to… — Wole Soyinka
The health of a nation, a society, can be determined by the art it demands. We have insisted of television and our movies that they… — Edward Albee
The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous. — Herbert Wilf
I'm a young guy called 'commutative ring', but I was originally 'the ring of continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space'. Now I am an… — Kato
History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to… — G. M. Trevelyan
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia. — David McCullough
In all of nature structure determines function. Yet many people consider the marathoner and football linebacker all to be just one composite human being, an… — William Herbert Sheldon
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore… — J. W. N. Sullivan
I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are playful, hopping around.… — Frans de Waal
If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul… — Aristotle
For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good… — Aristotle
There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race -- scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it… — Toni Morrison
It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not… — Edmund Burke
In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Skill is a function of chance. Itâ€™s an intuitive best-use of chance situations. — Philip K. Dick
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination… — William Carlos Williams
My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or… — Arthur Miller
Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in hand and we… — Peter Brook
The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the… — Woodrow Wilson

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