Functions Quotes

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The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrÃ©e of the spouses to their middle-class status. This… — Germaine Greer
After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential. — Leonhard Euler
I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives. — Charles Hermite
I believe that numbers and functions of Analysis are not the arbitrary result of our minds; I think that they exist outside of us, with… — Charles Hermite
In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes… — Juan Goytisolo
The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material world,… — Hilary Putnam
In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact that on any moral or… — Auberon Waugh
I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions. — Francois-Henri Pinault
Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of… — Fannie Hurst
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking… — Bill Mollison
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing — Gerry Mulligan
The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting… — William Henry Harrison
We do all kinds of things to remain beautiful yet we spend surprisingly little time taking care of what matters most: the way our mind… — Matthieu Ricard
The more we remember that we are part of the networks as human beings, the more we can act as human beings and not as… — Brian Solis
I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being antiheroic, antimonumental, antiabstract,… — Claes Oldenburg
People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone… — Robert Teeter
Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot be purchased with… — Robert J. Havighurst
I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions. — Richard Ernst
I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers. — David Neeleman
Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions. — Carl Ludwig

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