Quotes About Structure

Hence if man goes on selecting, and thus augmenting, any peculiarity, he will almost certainly modify unintentionally other parts of the structure, owing to the mysterious laws of correlation.

He who believes that each being has been created as we now see it, must occasionally have felt surprise when he has met with an animal having habits and structure not at all in agreement.

As the species of the same genus usually have, though by no means invariably, much similarity in habits and constitution, and always in structure, the struggle will generally be more severe between them, if they come into competition with each other, than between the species of distinct genera.

like varieties, from other species. Nevertheless, such a conclusion, even if well founded, would be unsatisfactory, until it could be shown how the innumerable species inhabiting this world have been modified, so as to acquire that perfection of structure and coadaptation which most justly excites our admiration. Naturalists continually refer to external conditions, such as climate, food, etc., as the only possible cause of variation. In one very

modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection, if it be a true principle, banish the belief of the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure.

By a monstrosity I presume is meant some considerable deviation of structure, generally injurious, or not useful to the species.

Look, we know, now, that a singularity doesn't turn into a voracious predator that eats all the dumb matter in its path, triggering a phase change in the structure of space—at least, not unless they've done something very stupid to the structure of the false vacuum, somewhere outside our current light cone.

messing around with the structure of space-time in order to find a way around the Beckenstein bound.

What was different about this crisis was that the institutional structure was different. It was not banks and depositors; it was broker-dealers and repo markets, money market funds and commercial paper. But the basic idea of providing short-term liquidity in order to stem a panic was very much what Bagehot envisioned when he wrote Lombard Street in 1873." 37

As this figure shows, a once-monolithic industry structure where professionals produced and amateurs consumed is now a two-way marketplace, where anyone can be in any camp at any time. This

Since our violence did not typically begin with anyone's desire to subvert the state, it did not typically end by undermining the legitimacy of authority," Hofstadter writes.20 The federal structure, as Hofstadter notes, has effectively diverted violence away from symbols of national power to regional or state authority.

For me, the training has to be a mixture of hard work - it has to have a good structure, a good base - but also, I don't want all my players to be like machines.

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter.

I always say, my set is like building a brick wall that all the jokes are the bricks but the improv is the mortar. You piece it all together and have a certain flow to it.

My household runs the same way it was with my parents, who were a mother and father with their kids.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

To just tell a story from beginning, middle and end doesn't motivate me that much.

Sin importar cuánto deseemos organizar todo de manera racional, sin desperdicios, ni cuán apasionada y cuidadosamente deseemos colocar todos los ladrillos de la estructura económica, sin grietas en la argamasa, esto continúa escapando a nuestras posibilidades.

Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Not necessarily in that order.

The ignorant are not satisfied with what can be demonstrated. Science is too slow for them, and so they invent creeds. They demand completeness. A sublime segment, a grand fragment, are of no value to them. They demand the complete circle — the entire structure.

Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless.

To wit: actions, like sounds, divide the flow of time into beats.[...]The quality of a man's life depends on the rhyhmic structure he is able to impose upon the input and output of energy.

Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order