Quotes About Function

Macronutrients and Micronutrients: Macros come in three forms: protein, fat, and carbohydrates. And they all have different functions. Protein, for example, serves as the building blocks for our cells, while carbs and fat are used as energy (albeit in different ways). Micronutrients are vitamins, minerals, and compounds found in food that also have effects on the body, namely in terms of promoting good health and strong systems at the cellular level.

The scene in Isaiah 6 demonstrates another function of the supernatural beings in Yahweh's council: worship.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

So long as the anti-militarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of hate, so long they fail to realize the full equities of the situation.

The brain has a way of confirming its own hypotheses. It's how we function in our world. That which fits within our definition and perspective of our existence is retained, if not amplified. That which does not is either rationalized or cast aside until an event so great or profound occurs that we must rethink everything.

Maybe what you found is being used for another reason?" Z stopped. "Oh, yeah. Right. Because those things are multifunctional. Like Q-tips or some shit. Look, would you talk to her?

We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of a man is to live, not to exist. Jack London

Sleep is probably the most important biological function. If you don't get enough sleep, you can get psychiatric illnesses and all types of different illnesses.

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.

Maturity transformation is a central part of the economic function of banks and many other types of financial intermediaries.

My hypothesis is not so much that the court is the natural expression of popular justice, but rather that its historical function is to ensnare it, to control it and strangle it, by re-inscribing it within institutions which are typical of a state apparatus.

There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.

It's such an insult that foul gas comes out of a hole in our butt with a sound to announce itself. It's the ultimate bad thing about being a person.

In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.

Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.

Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day.

If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.

Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create jobs?

Doctors explain that the cardiac cells are "auto-rhythmic" cells. They actually vibrate and beat together instinctively at the same tempo—before they ever unite with each other and function as the heart!

If the middle-class has any function at all it is to work to provide us with taxes, with which we can bribe the mobs of Rome and keep them contented and docile.

Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.