Function Quotes

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The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future. — Joel A. Barker
The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness... an ability that we as human beings… — Richard Carlson
Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments. — Bobby Scott
So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices. — Merton Miller
He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order… — Herb Alpert
The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function. — Frederick Pollock
The regulation of medicine has been a State function. — Barney Frank
By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any… — Michael Behe
He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them. — Jamie Muir
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very… — Adolf Loos
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book. — Walter Kaufmann
The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation… — Carol P. Christ
I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function. — Robin Day
This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack. — Joseph Rotblat
My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the… — Michael Tippett
Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into… — Ralph Merkle
No one with a body full of aliments can have a luminous soul and other intellectual faculties. It is necessary to care for the body… — Michael Servetus
The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent. — Wendell Willkie
So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal,… — Rudolf Arnheim

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