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Quotes About Structure

cinder block. In the other three walls. They
~ Lee Child
Whatever is happening on very small scales near the horizon of the black hole will be enlarged by the effect whereby the wavelengths of light are stretched as the light climbs up to us. This means that jf we can observe light coming from very close to the horizon of a black hole, we may be able to see the quantum structure of space itself.
~ Lee Smolin
It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather carefully thought out. . . . The seemingly miraculous concurrence of these numerical values must remain the most compelling evidence for cosmic design. Physicist Paul Davies
~ Lee Strobel
Human knowledge is not a mere collection, but a structure; it is a single body of interrelated cognitions.
~ Leonard Peikoff
You know, Ethan, there are cultures on earth who believe that—under the right circumstances—a person can be separated from their inner spirit." "Inner spirit?" Rush repeated. "I mean the intangible life force that links us from this world to the next. The Byzantines, the Incans, certain Native American tribes, Enlightenment-era Rosicrucians, all had variant belief structures regarding such a thing—there were, and are, many others.
~ Lincoln Child
The midpoint scene occurs just where you'd expect it—about halfway through the script. Syd Field, in The Screenwriter's Workbook, says that it divides the story in half, introducing an event or line of dialogue that helps structure Act Two. In my work consulting on more than 2,000 scripts and teaching many of the best films, I don't find a midpoint scene in every film. But when I do find one, it functions as an excellent tool to help structure a difficult second act.
~ Linda Seger
I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular genetics in recent years.
~ Linus Pauling
The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change.
~ Toshihiko Fukui
As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).
~ Bill Mollison
Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.
~ Gus Hall
America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.
~ Lewis H. Lapham
You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.
~ Jill Soloway
Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.
~ Colin Ward
Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.
~ Maurice Druon
The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.
~ Romano Prodi
One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.
~ Susan Howatch
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
~ Seneca the Younger
I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse and blameless kind of society.
~ Jonathan Raymond
A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.
~ Cherie Blair
Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
~ Arthur Erickson
The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.
~ Carl Jung