“Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.” IfsMenWorldMayHas BeensSeemsMightTogetherHouseCan DoAnimalWonderEnemyDogCreaturesCatFunctionAnimal WorldCat And Dog Author:C. S. Lewis
“As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life.” PeopleFeelsSometimesCreaturesMarriedFunctionAffair Author:Etgar Keret
“We all want explanations for why we behave as we do and for the ways the world around us functions. Even when our feeble explanations have little to do with reality. We’re storytelling creatures by nature, and we tell ourselves story after story until we come up with an explanation that we like and that sounds reasonable enough to believe. And when the story portrays us in a more glowing and positive light, so much the better.” WorldWayWantBelieveLittlesEnoughStoriesRealityLightSoundCreaturesFunctionCome UpStorytellingBehaveExplanationReasonableGlowing Author:Dan Ariely
“Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind, in one word noogenesis. When for the first time in a living creature instinct perceived itself in its own mirror, the whole world took a pace forward.” MenWorldMindFirstsWholeScienceDevelopmentHigherCreaturesFirst TimeFunctionMirrorsInstinctWhole WorldPaceOne WordRelievedLiving Creatures Book:The Phenomenon of Man Source: The Phenomenon of Man
“The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of the universe, any kind of creature imaginable. That's too big. It provides no focus for the artist. An artist needs, in order to function, some narrowing of focus. Usually, in the history of art, the narrower the focus in which the artist is forced to work, the greater the art.” NeedsWritingKindArtBigsPastArtistOrderUniverseSpaceFictionGreaterFocusTroubleCreaturesFunctionScience Fiction Author:Philip J. Klass
“It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine the relations of their organs and which possess a necessity equal to that of metaphysical or mathematical laws, since it is evident that the seemly harmony between organs which interact is a necessary condition of existence of the creature to which they belong and that if one of these functions were modified in a manner incompatible with the modifications of the others the creature could no longer continue to exist.” IfsLawExistenceConditionsCreaturesEqualFunctionRelationHarmonyDetermineAidsMathematicalMutualOrgansDependenceEvidentMetaphysicalModification Author:Georges Cuvier
“If you can capture a womans imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.” IfsLoveNeedsRomanceImaginationStrangeCreaturesFunctionDistanceCaptureTime Of NeedTime And Distance Author:Kathleen Tessaro