“Psychiatry is all biological and all social. There is no mental function without brain and social context. To ask how much of mind is biological and how much social is as meaningless as to ask how much of the area of a rectangle is due to its width and how much to its height” MindAsksSocialBrainAreasFunctionDuesHeightMeaninglessPsychiatryWidthRectangles Author:Leon Eisenberg
“Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of interpretation. This conflict has the function of breaking down automatism of perception and occurs simultaneously on the many levels of a work of art ... All levels may carry meaning.” MayArtTwoPoetryLevelsEffectsConflictElementsPerceptionFunctionDuesTensionInterpretationWorks Of ArtBreaking DownClash Author:Yuri Lotman
“Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.” FirstsLooksMayRealMatterEvolutionProveResearchFunctionDuesAccidentsOddOutcomesPhenomenonIrrelevantBiologist Author:E. O. Wilson
“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
“The Holy Ghost, a personage of spirit, is their minister, who has been given the power and assigned the functions of bearing record of the Father and the Son, of revealing the truths of salvation to men on earth, and in due course, of revealing to them, all truth.” MenHas BeensEarthSpiritCoursesFatherGivenRecordsSonHolyFunctionSalvationDuesGhostMinistersRevealingHoly Ghost Author:Bruce R. McConkie
“The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.” MenProblemAgeFunctionBottomDuesBe GoodFallenSanctionsMoralist Book:The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“All of man's ills are due to his lack of knowing God within him. The perfection of God's universe is founded upon its perfection of Balance. All of man's ills are caused by toxic poisons generated in his body through unbalance affecting his power of control over the functions of his electric body. Man, as an extension of God, is creator of his own electric body. He is master of his electric body to the extent of his knowing the Light of God in him. ... God says to man: »What I do, ye shall do«, but man is unbelieving for long ages.” MenLongBodyLightAgeUniverseKnowingMastersBalancePerfectionFunctionCreatorDuesPoisonToxicElectricExtensionsKnowing God Author:Walter Russell