Structures Quotes

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It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and particular structures. It… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ... There… — Charles Francis Richter
We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals. — Linus Pauling
Poverty calls us to sow hope.... Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is… — Pope Francis
My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on… — Thomas Jefferson
The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the… — Carol P. Christ
Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket. Such questions include,… — Lynn Margulis
Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry,… — K.P. Yohannan
I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved… — George H. Miley
Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of their… — Charles A. Reich
Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense - the… — William Borah
The whole system is under tremendous strain. Although the increasing pace of change is essential for developing new solutions, it is also pushing society to… — Franz Josef Radermacher
The whole aim of comparative anatomy is to discover what structures are homologous. — Libbie Hyman
Cell genetics led us to investigate cell mechanics. Cell mechanics now compels us to infer the structures underlying it. In seeking the mechanism of heredity… — C. D. Darlington
Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity. — Victor J. Stenger
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures. — Alan Perlis
I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data… — Linus Torvalds
There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures… — David Korten
For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the… — Audre Lorde
Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as do the structures… — Keith Devlin

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