Quotes About Structure

The classic example from biology is the huge, towerlike structure that is built by some ant and termite species. These structures only emerge when the ant colony reaches a certain size (more is different) and could never be predicted by studying the behavior of single insects in small colonies.

La présence d'une voix humaine structure l'espace qui la contient.

Government is the right disposition of things.

I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure - like the canon, which is only a hole surrounded by steel - can be based only on what one does not have; and that ultimately one can write only to fill a void or at the least to situate, in relation to the most lucid part of ourselves, the place where this incommensurable abyss yawns within us.

Dr. Gazzaniga concludes, "It is the left hemisphere that engages in the human tendency to find order in chaos, that tries to fit everything into a story and put it into a context. It seems that it is driven to hypothesize about the structure of the world even in the face of evidence that no pattern exists.

God is the STRUCTURE of Life, not the Narrative.

people do need some commandment to rule over them in our century, when god's ten have been virtually forgotten! the whole moral structure of our time rests on the eleventh commandment; and the journalist came to realize that thanks to a mysterious provision of history he is to become its administrator, gaining a power undreamed of by a hemingway or an orwell.

I really love routine and so I've never found it a problem. I really enjoy it. I don't mind somebody organising what I have to do. I'm a creature of habit in some ways.

I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave.

I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.

We are the beauty of the worldenveloped within the confines of a human structure:created out of love to lovefor all of eternity.

proportioned.

On the top of the tomb, seemingly driven through the solid marble—for the structure was composed of a few vast blocks of stone—was a great iron spike or stake. On going to the back I saw, graven in great Russian letters: 'The dead travel fast.

Messy arrangements far outweigh orderly ones.

The skyscraper is but a physical realization of the information contained in the architect's design.

But when we examine the universe, there seem to be numerous lost opportunities, since there are many things that are more ordered than they have to be.

When everything is laid out neatly and in sequence, you will feel much more like getting on with the job.

What is an organization actually, even in organization theory, even in the most classical sense in management, if not a serial redescription which starts again (and it's true) every morning.

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos.

It is very difficult to evolve by altering the deep fabric of life; any change there is likely to be lethal. But fundamental change can be accomplished by the addition of new systems on top of old ones…Thus evolution by addition and the functional preservation of the preexisting structure must occur for one of two reasons-either the old function is required as well as the new one, or there is no way of bypassing the old system that is consistent with survival.

Could my fondness for materials have something to do with the fact the I am made chiefly of them?

But the brain does much more than just recollect it inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes, it generates abstractions. The simplest thought like the concept of the number one has an elaborate logical underpinning. The brain has its own language for testing the structure and consistency of the world.