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“Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter is indispensable even for a proper appreciation of the behavior of the function for real arguments. It is therefore essential that the original determination of the function concept be broadened to a domain of magnitudes which includes both the real and the imaginary quantities, on an equal footing, under the single designation complex numbers.”

“Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity.”

Wells Might Form Natural Environment Greater Behavior Function Simplicity Locals Complexity Yield Selection Adaptation Natural Selection Habitat Natural Habitats

Book:Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

“I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me.”

Religious Behavior Function Ceremony Identical

Book:The Fountains of Paradise

Source: The Fountains of Paradise

“The first attempts to consider the behavior of so-called "random neural nets" in a systematic way have led to a series of problems concerned with relations between the "structure" and the "function" of such nets. The "structure" of a random net is not a clearly defined topological manifold such as could be used to describe a circuit with explicitly given connections. In a random neural net, one does not speak of "this" neuron synapsing on "that" one, but rather in terms of tendencies and probabilities associated with points or regions in the net.”

Way Firsts Doe Problem Used Speak Given Term Behavior Concerned Connections Function Relation Structure Series Tendencies Defined Regions Probability Systematic Circuits Neurons Manifold

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom.”

Source: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male

“To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.”

Men Humans Art Universe Behavior Hollywood Function Considering Irrational Human Behavior Unpredictable Frailty

Author:William Faulkner

“Guilt serves a powerful social function in terms of policing our behavior.”

Social Term Powerful Behavior Function Guilt

Author:David D. Burns

“If a hungry lion suddenly appeared, you'd be terrified. So terrified you'd probably run away. Great, fear's doing its job. But you might get so afraid that you lock up and can't move. This would be very bad. Guilt's the same. It can prevent you from fixing the situation, make you feel so bad you can't function at 100% and even lead to more guilt-provoking bad behavior.”

Ifs Feels Might Would Be Running Jobs Moving Situation Behavior Function Guilt Hungry Lions Running Away Locks Provoking Terrified Fixing Bad Behavior Lock Up Hungry Lion

Author:David D. Burns

“It is a written fact that our people had warned of all these consequences of wrongful environmental behavior since our very first contact with the non-Indians. There was a time when our elders used to say to us, "You can't function with one foot in the white man's canoe and one foot in the Indian's canoe." With these extreme environmental concerns taking place on the earth, mankind is all in the same boat. Or better be.”

People Men Firsts Facts Earth Used White Written Feet Mankind Behavior Consequence Concern Function Environmental Extremes Contact Boat Indian White Man Elders First Contact

Author:Leonard Peltier

“Genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology, etc.”

Important Understanding Brain Behavior Function Code Etc Genes Protein Pertinent Brain Function

Author:Robert M. Sapolsky

“If managers knew how deeply their behaviors could affect brain function - whether they are piling up too much work on someone or yelling at them for "motivational purposes", they would quit doing it.”

Ifs Purpose Brain Too Much Behavior Function Quitting Managers Yelling Too Much Work Brain Function

Author:John Medina

“As a function of the easy access to information provided by the Internet, and the ease with which it can be shared thanks to social media, consumers are now better informed as to the behavior of brands and the multiple global crises we face.”

Faces Social Easy Media Information Internet Behavior Function Crisis Social Media Access Thanks Brands Consumers Ease Multiple Access To Information Easy Access

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.”

Freedom Decision Conditions Behavior Empowerment Function 7 Habits

Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal government. The government, and those who ran it, were not placed outside the law, but expressly targeted by it. Indeed, the Bill of Rights is little more than a description of the lines that the most powerful political officials are barred from crossing, even if they have the power to do so and even when the majority of citizens might wish them to do so.”

“Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.”

Seems Teacher Teaching Conditions Students Prove Behavior Tasks Function Formal Arrangements Enjoyable Formal Education

Author:B. F. Skinner