Function Quotes

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The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize what they know. — Maurice Blondel
Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of anger, in the… — Bronislaw Malinowski
Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being. — Silvano Arieti
I believe that forgiving them is god's function, our job is to arrange the meeting. — Norman Schwarzkopf
The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures. — Georges Braque
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it. — Frank Herbert
Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a… — Donna J. Haraway
Form follows function. — Louis Sullivan
There is only one purpose for all of life, and that is for you and all that lives to experience fullest glory...everything else you say,… — Neale Donald Walsch
The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live. — Alexander Sutherland Neill
Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working. — Orville Dewey
I want color and form to have contradictorily functions. — Josef Albers
The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to… — Theodor Adorno
It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic. — Felix Morley
In trying to evaluate Hopkins' unique contribution to biochemistry it may perhaps be said that he alone amongst his contemporaries succeeded in formulating the subject.… — Marjory Stephenson
We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of heredity, development and… — C. D. Darlington
Life consists in the sum of the functions, by which death is resisted. — Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of the analogy, since… — Mary Hesse
Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated… — Francis Maitland Balfour

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