Function Quotes

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It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason. — Robert Morrison MacIver
Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this. She is smart, funny and thoroughly charming. Often,… — Barack Obama
Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country to… — Claude Bernard
Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it. — Rene Dubos
Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in series as hereditary… — Oswald Avery
All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. — Mark Twain
But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of… — Arthur Balfour
The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon… — Karl Pearson
During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth is now obsolete.… — Max Born
Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces that are supposed… — Francois Jacob
Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective image of the… — James Clerk Maxwell
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself. — William James
I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical method… — Alfred Binet
This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism.… — Luis Federico Leloir
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and… — G. H. Hardy
As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical issues are involved.… — Sydney Brenner
I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education,… — Thomas Jefferson
The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is to find that… — Joseph Campbell

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