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“Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their special function or profession.”

Men Made Hands Science Winning Knowledge Special Function Profession Passing Passings Occasional

Author:William Wickenden

“These ... tables (values of trignometric functions), constructed by means of new techniques based principally on the calculus of differences, are one of the most beautiful monuments ever erected to science.”

Mean Beautiful Values Differences Function Tables Technique Monument Calculus

Author:Adrien-Marie Legendre

“The standard "foundation" for mathematics starts with sets and their elements. It is possible to start differently, by axiomatising not elements of sets but functions between sets. This can be done by using the language of categories and universal constructions.”

Done Language Elements Standards Universal Function Mathematics Foundation Categories Construction

Book:Mathematics, form and function

Source: Mathematics, form and function

“. . . the membership relation for sets can often be replaced by the composition operation for functions. This leads to an alternative foundation for Mathematics upon categories -- specifically, on the category of all functions. Now much of Mathematics is dynamic, in that it deals with morphisms of an object into another object of the same kind. Such morphisms (like functions) form categories, and so the approach via categories fits well with the objective of organizing and understanding Mathematics. That, in truth, should be the goal of a proper philosophy of Mathematics.”

“Mastery is not a function of I.Q. or natural talent or wealthy parents who can send you to the best school, but rather the result of going through a learning process, fueled by the desire to grow and the persistence to push past any obstacles.”

School Past Desire Grows Process Parent Natural Results Talent Function Obstacles Persistence Wealthy Mastery Learning Process Natural Talent Best School

Author:Robert Greene

“An honest design communicates solely the functions and values it offers. It does not attempt to manipulate buyers and users with promises it cannot keep.”

Doe Values Honest Design Promise Offers Function Communicate Users Manipulate Buyers

Author:Dieter Rams

“Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.”

Form Movement Function Terrorism Globalization

Author:Thomas P.M. Barnett

“Women need to be in key operational roles where they run businesses in the organization. Sometimes when organizations focus on leadership diversity, they're mostly in areas like HR or non-operating line functions.”

Needs Sometimes Running Lines Roles Focus Keys Diversity Areas Organization Function

Author:Gracia Martore

“I am, in fact, the complete anti-Messiah, and detest converts almost as much as I detest missionaries. My writings, such as they are, have had only one purpose: to attain for H. L. Mencken that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.”

Giving Writing Facts Feelings Purpose Enjoy Function Tension Milk Cows Messiah Relieved Detest

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.”

Doe Virtue Exercise Function Faults Laziness Idleness

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.”

People Artist Certain Courses Creating Function Pope

Author:Andrew Schneider

“The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to simple survival until death happens along. So I am engaged in striving to maintain equilibrium sufficient to at least realize survival in a way to astound the gods.”

Men Way Happens Realizing Simple Creative Limits Survival Function Strive Sufficient Engaged Equilibrium Endeavour Creative Work

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“A lot of the diagnosis and monitoring functions will be done through little devices - smartphones - by the patient with computer assistance. So it's a real big change in the model of how we render healthcare.”

Littles Real Done Bigs Change Computer Models Function Patient Devices Healthcare Assistance Diagnosis Smartphones Monitoring Big Changes

Author:Eric Topol

“Its such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, Im going to really work hard for it and give it and its just going to matter to people. You really have to believe it all on your own.”

People Giving Believe Self Matter Hard Artist Hard Work Function Self Confidence

Author:Dan Colen

“Technologically, modern man does everything he can do-he functions on this single boundary principle. Modern man, seeing himself as autonomous, with no personal-infinite God who has spoken, has no adequate universal to supply an adequate second boundary condition; and man being fallen is not only finite, but sinful. Thus man's pragmatically made choices have no reference point beyond human egotism. It is dog eat dog, man eat man, man eat nature.”

“The idea that we are "stewards of the earth" is another symptom of human arrogance. Imagine yourself with the task of overseeing your body's physical processes. Do you understand the way it works well enough to keep all its systems in operation? Can you make your kidneys function? Can you control the removal of waste? Are you conscious of the blood flow through your arteries, or the fact that you are losing a hundred thousand skin cells a minute?”

“I love the idea of God, but it's not stylistically in keeping with the way I function. I would describe myself as an enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God. I can see that people who believe in God are happier. ... But I doubt.”

People Way Believe I Can Ideas God Would Be Religious Doubt Function Believe In God Agnostic Enthusiastic Describe Myself

Author:Carrie Fisher

“The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing each other over their different strategies.”

World Different Religion Social Religious Function Strategy Killing Individuality Valuable Quitting Someday Luminous Killing Each Other

Book:The Essential Rumi - reissue: New Expanded Edition

Source: The Essential Rumi - reissue: New Expanded Edition

“Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.”

Mind Born Ideals Function Institutions Expected

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking.”

People Want Talking Function Arguing Uncomfortable

Author:Ewan MacColl

“As the worldly philosophers of the past affirmed, the goal of economics is to improve the way society functions. In The New Financial Order, Robert Shiller joins this proud tradition by directing his brilliant economic skills toward the creation of financial institutions designed to reduce the risks an unknown future visits on most members of our society and others. Shiller's imaginative and compelling analysis will appeal to all readers who share his passion for initiating not only a richer, but a better, century.”

“Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer becomes a celebrity tourist visiting the set, trying not to get in the way. It's very good for the ego, to go visit a film set if you are the writer, because they give you a special chair, and tell you where you can sit to watch the monitor. They make you feel special, but at the same time, they make it perfectly plain that you are irrelevant!”

Ifs Way Giving Feels Trying Done Film Watches Special Ego Function Very Good Scripts Chairs Irrelevant Rehearsal Tourists Visiting Film Set

Author:Tom Stoppard

“You have to have a government that does give both money and energy to function in a leadership role modeling giving for the people. Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases.”

People Giving Doe Government Energy Roles Cases Example Function Role Models Modeling Leadership Roles

Author:Maya Soetoro-Ng

“The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public.”

Way Democracy Function Informing

Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“You love the person for who they are, flaws and all. You can't help who you love, either. It comes from a different side of your brain than the logic part that tells you that this person is horrible for you - "You should walk away!" While you're walking away, the other part of your brain is trying to gain control of your bodily functions. "Turn around! She's the one!"”

Should Trying Persons Different Helping Turns Sides Walks Brain Walking Gains Logic Function Horrible Flaws Walking Away Different Sides Bodily Functions

Author:Jim Carrey

“You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies.”

People Body Function Bodily Functions

Author:Charlie Kaufman

“Working as a lawyer, you have a lot of pressure. But if you go crazy, you are not going to get anything done! When I am under pressure, I am the most determined person in the world. I function very well.”

Ifs World Wells Persons Done Crazy Function Pressure Determined Lawyer Under Pressure

Author:Julie King

“My fear, is that we are becoming so dependent on technology that if it was all taken away for some reason, some big incident, that we are losing our ability to function without it.”

Ifs Reason Bigs Ability Technology Taken Becoming Losing Function Dependent Incidents

Author:Bruce Boxleitner

“Mobile communications have two functions: as a safety net, and as a marketing tool. I think it'd be foolish to not carry one for safety sake. Using one for marketing is an optional activity, and I've generally stayed away from extensively using one for this purpose because it's a distraction.”

Thinking Two Purpose Communication Activity Tools Function Safety Sake Marketing Foolish Distraction Mobile Optional Safety Net

Author:Andrew Skurka

“A silly comedy needs a straight guy, and that guy needs to be as straight as possible. The moment you start playing straight you're not straight anymore, you're bent straight, so it really requires the usual serious, straight-forward analysis and research, looking into it and finding the dramatic function, all of what you do until you feel you've collected enough points to safely and securely play the part.”

Needs Feels Enough Play Moments Guy Comedy Serious Findings Research Function Silly Analysis Dramatic Usual Bent That Guy

Author:Christoph Waltz

“Music originally had a social function. You were in church, in a concert hall, a marching band; you were dancing. I'm concerned that music could be too separated from its roots and just become a pleasure-giving experience, like a drug.”

Giving Social Church Pleasure Drug Band Concerned Roots Function Dancing Halls Concerts Marching Band

Author:Oliver Sacks

“I don't necessarily think stories have functions any more than diamonds have functions, or the sky has a function... Stories exist. They keep us sane, I think. We tell each other stories, we believe stories. I love watching the slow rise of the urban legend. They're the stories that we use to explain ourselves to ourselves.”

Thinking Believe Stories Use Sky Function Having Fun Legends Diamond Sane Urban Urban Legends

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.”

Light Ready Function Substance Sacraments Paganism Light Up

Book:The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Hasidism, Essays in Metaphysics, and The Emotions

Source: The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Hasidism, Essays in Metaphysics, and The Emotions

“EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. 'I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,' said Brillat-Savarin, beginning an anecdote. 'What!' interrupted Rochebriant; 'eating dinner in a drawing-room?' 'I must beg you to observe, monsieur,' explained the great gastronome, 'that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before.'”

Said Enjoy Hours Rooms Food Eating Function Cooking Dinner Drawing Culinary Interrupted Anecdotes Eating Dinner

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.”

Inspirational Wells May Motivational Animal Information Planets Function Critical Our Planet Dolphins Regeneration

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“I believe a lot of people that are gay, had even had problems like I had in the past. I think they've been hurt by somebody from the opposite sex, and they don't know how to function right in those relationships.”

People Thinking Knows Believe Problem Past I Believe Sex Hurt Know How Gay Opposites Function Been Hurt

Author:Joyce Meyer

“The brain is a dynamic system that constantly processes and creates your reality. It works best if you balance all the things that the brain is good at. The brain is good at being adaptable, flexible, creative, and intelligent. But it's also good at playing and just being. A balanced life provides time - every day if possible - so that every function of the brain is allowed to come alive and flourish.”

Ifs Reality Process Brain Creative Alive Balance Function Intelligent Balanced Just Being Flexible Balanced Life Adaptable

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I wasn't ever unable to function, but I did realize at some point that I had built a wall between myself and my childhood by saying, "I'm so glad that's over. Nothing can ever be as bad again," without understanding that my childhood was still very much with me.”

Stills Understanding Realizing Childhood Wall Built Function Glad

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Comedy today is not what it was years ago. It's always changing, in particular to female comics. No longer are certain subjects considered to be a male preserve. Women can talk about sexuality and their bodily functions and it can be very, very entertaining. It's changed the impact of comedy acting.”

Years Today Certain Acting Comedy Subjects Changed Particular Female Years Ago Function Impact Males Sexuality Preserves Entertaining Bodily Functions

Author:Patrick Stewart

“Los Angeles functions for me as a kind of holy template. It is postwar America.”

Kind America Holy Function Los Angeles

Author:Michael Light

“Teaching a practice can also be a hindrance if it becomes one's identity. To be a spiritual teacher is a temporary function. I'm a spiritual teacher when somebody comes to me and some teaching happens, but the moment they leave I'm no longer a spiritual teacher. If I carry the identity of spiritual teacher, it will cause suffering.”

Ifs Moments Happens Spiritual Suffering Causes Practice Teacher Teaching Identity Function Temporary Hindrance Spiritual Teachers

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would be devised: both processes gained speed through the nineteenth century and have come close to the limit of extravagant futility in our own time. But labor-saving devices could only achieve their end-that of freeing mankind for higher functions-if the standard of living remained stable. The dogma of increasing wants nullified every real economy and set the community in a collective squirrel-cage.”

“I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out to deliver a specific message.”

Way Believe Stories Fiction Messages Function

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“God designed the world in such a way that everything functions on principles. Principles are eternal laws established and inherent in creation that make creation function.”

World Way Law Principles Creation Eternal Function Inherent

Author:Myles Munroe

“Principles are laws that are established by the creator or the manufacturer by which a product functions. If you violate those laws, then you produce malfunction, which is what we call failure. If you obey those laws and align yourself with those laws, then you are guaranteed success.”

Ifs Law Principles Produce Products Function Creator Malfunction

Author:Myles Munroe

“Failure of success is not race-related; it's not socioeconomics-related; it is really predictable, based on principles that are laid down by God the Creator by which we are supposed to function. If we find them and obey them, success becomes inevitable. That's why I was able to move from rats to 40,000 feet in the air in my own aircraft.”

Ifs Able Moving My Own Race Principles Air Feet Function Creator Inevitable Related Rats Predictable Aircraft

Author:Myles Munroe

“Trust is a function of both character and competence. Of course you can't trust someone who lacks integrity, but if someone is honest but they can't perform, you're not going to trust them either. You won't trust them to get the job done.”

Ifs Done Character Jobs Courses Honest Integrity Function Competence Get The Job Done

Author:Stephen Covey

“There's nothing in the actual Bible that limits a Christian in their appreciation of or interest in science. Anti-science is purely a function of ignorant fundamentalism.”

Christian Interest Limits Function Appreciation Ignorant Fundamentalism

Author:Moby

“Sometimes you have to rely on sex and bodily functions.”

Sometimes Sex Function Rely Bodily Functions

Author:Larry David

“Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very important social function because music can do things that mere prose, mere ordinary political agitation can't do.”

Needs Important Sometimes Political Social Can Do Ordinary Function Mere Welcome Prose Distraction Agitation

Author:Howard Zinn

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