“Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!” GivingHumansChanceHuman BeingsAnimalFunctionSectionsGlands Book:The Glass Menagerie Source: The Glass Menagerie
“One is not quite certain that creativeness in the arts, literature, and science functions best in an environment of absolute freedom. Chances are that a relatively mild tyranny stimulates creativeness.” ArtCertainLiteratureChanceEnvironmentFunctionAbsolutesTyrannyChances AreCreativenessAbsolute Freedom Author:Eric Hoffer
“It is not the function of the State to make men happy. They must make themselves happy in their own way, and at their own risk. The functions of the State lie entirely in the conditions or chances under which the pursuit of happiness is carried on.” MenWayStatesGovernmentLyingChanceRiskConditionsFunctionPursuitPursuit Of Happiness Book:What Social Classes Owe to Each Other Source: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
“Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.” FormChoicesChanceFantasyDecidedFunction Author:David Pye
“[The artist's aim is] not to instruct the viewer, but to give him information... . The artist would follow his predetermined premise to its conclusion, avoiding subjectivity. Chance, taste, or unconsciously remembered forms would play no part in the outcome. The serial artist does not attempt to produce a beautiful or mysterious object but functions merely as a clerk cataloguing the results of his premise.” GivingDoePlayBeautifulFormArtistChanceResultsInformationObjectsProduceTasteFunctionAimConclusionMysteriousRememberedOutcomesAvoidingViewersPremisesSubjectivitySerialsClerksPredetermined Author:Sol LeWitt
“Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the customs clearance, the inventory, answering the telephone, writing up the orders, picking, packing and shipping and managing all of these functions. So we eliminate a huge number of costs and the chance that those books won't sell.” WritingBookOrderChanceNumbersQualityFourColorHugeHigherCostPaperOceanFunctionSellsExpensiveCustomsTelephonesPrintingPackingInventoryShippingHuge NumbersClearance Author:Dan Poynter
“In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.” YearsSchoolMovingCoursesChanceFunctionMedicalCellsSecond ChanceAnatomyPhysiologyMedical SchoolMedical EducationAnatomy And Physiology Author:Sydney Brenner
“The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with all its order in each of its organisms is simply too well put together. Each part of a living thing depends on all its other parts to function. How does each part know? How is each part specified at conception? The more one learns of biochemistry the more unbelievable it becomes unless there is some type of organizing principle-an architect.” KnowsWorldWellsDoeTogetherOrderChanceExistencePrinciplesKnow HowTypeDependsEvolutionFunctionComplicatedDuesConvincedConceptionArchitectOrganismsUnbelievableLiving ThingsInterconnectionBiochemistryExistence Of Life Author:Allan Sandage