Functions Quotes
475 quotes by 402 authors
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In my personal view, a failure to discover unimagined objects and answer unasked questions, once HST functions properly, would indicate a lack of imagination in…
— John N. Bahcall
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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
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The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous.
— Herbert Wilf
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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…
— Unknown Author
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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
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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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All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of each citizen is…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be…
— Steve Israel
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It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than…
— Robert L. Devaney
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When man has mastered money he shall have mastered not only his economic problem of prosperity but also his political problem, for he will see…
— E.C. Riegel
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Phyllis explained to him, trying to give of her deeper self, 'Don't you find it so beautiful, math? Like an endless sheet of gold chains,…
— John Updike
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To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.
— Hiroshi Sugimoto
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There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes…
— John Ruskin
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The discovery of orgone energy was made through consistent, thorough study of energy functions, first in the realm of the psyche, and later in the…
— Wilhelm Reich
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As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.
— Michael Behe
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Indeed, my conclusion from a lifetime of psychohistorical study of childhood and society is that the history of humanity is founded upon the abuse of…
— Lloyd deMause
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Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.
— Ken Robinson
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If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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The real reason to abolish departments like Energy and Education is not to promote efficiency, nor even to save taxpayers’ money. It is that many…
— David Boaz
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