Quotes About Function

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.

The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves a certain purpose, which may be known or unknown to us.

ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself

Nature has made nothing in vain.

We have the capacity to alter the nature of nature. No, we don't have just the capacity - we are altering the nature of nature, the natural systems that cause the planet to function in our favor.

Nature does nothing uselessly.

The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidneys is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.

Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.

The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.

I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry.

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

The function of a heart is to keep the body alive, I genuinely believe it is mind which takes care of everything else.

Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

all democratic societies based on the rule of law, on the Tinkerbell Principle: it functioned only so long as its participants believed in it.48