Quotes About Structure

If you can find a way to stabilize this structure, do so. Sure, your people could use the room. If you should stabilize the Ringworld with help from my equipment, I want credit. I may want to ask a reward. Valavirgillin snarled and choked off a reply. Louis said quickly, You'll get the credit you deserve.

Many writers, good writers who ought to know better, focus so tightly on the structure demanded by a crime story that they lose track of the fact that they are writing a novel. Accusations of both sensationalism and trivialisation are, alas, often justified.

You can build a whole world of lies, as long as each lie reinforces every other lie. You can create a masterful structure of sheer logic if you begin with one false postulate. All it takes is consistency.

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

We define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds.

Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one of the most striking of our modern national genius.

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.

I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.

The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.

We need no science of formulae, but a science of forms.

Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

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

Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.

A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.

Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

The whole of a human being is merely a vertebra.