Quotes About Function

In other words, my pot doesn't work? It doesn't have a pulse, he says. I have a pulse. Kimmie offers her wrist. Wanna check?

If you are born of the artist tribe it is a waste of time to try and function as a priest. You have to be faithful to your angle of vision, and at the same time recognise its partiality. There is a kind of perfection to be achieved in matching oneself to one's capacities at every level. This must, I imagine, do away with strivings, and with illusions too.

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo changes according to advances in the sciences.

The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of contraction, however measured, is a function of the length of the muscle fibre.

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

Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

The existence of trousers proves that God meant us to be bipeds.

Without the harmonious electrochemical activity of all the brain structure, the very thing which we call "mind", would suddenly disappear from the face of earth.

The convenient function of every celebrated machine for living is to produce machines to live in them.

Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.

most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it

Whether produced by outsiders or by indigenous people, end-of-the-century discourses about Africa are not necessarily applicable to their object. Their nature, their stakes, and their functions are situated elsewhere. They are deployed only by replacing this object, creating it, erasing it, decomposing and multiplying it. Thus there is no description of Africa that does not involve destructive and mendacious functions.

The stock that is laid out in a house, if it is to be the dwelling-house of the proprietor, ceases from that moment to serve in the function of a capital, or to afford any revenue to its owner. A dwelling-house, as such, contributes nothing to the revenue of its inhabitant; and though it is, no doubt, extremely useful to him, it is as his clothes and household furniture are useful to him, which, however, make a part of his expense, and not of his revenue.

where the author has no ordained place or prescribed function and with nothing useful to do except gossip and make myself amiable; I succumb all too readily to the lure of conviviality and sociability's powerful drug and just sit around and watch.

remove a trigger from a gun and while the trigger itself would look decidedly unimportant, its absence would render the gun useless.

It was left to San'dwil to sum up the totality of the attempt. "So you can make the bodies live but cannot bring back consciousness." Wol'daeen gestured affirmatively. "It is most exasperating. The resurrected forms have all the appearance of life but none of the necessary cognitive functions.

Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.