“To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.” InspirationalShouldHeartMotivationalHistoryPlansSelf EsteemPositiveFunctionVery GoodIronSleevesMiscellaneousFunny RelationshipIron LadyHeart On My SleeveHeart On Your Sleeve Author:Margaret Thatcher
“The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.” ReasonLastsHistoryLogicFunctionInfinityReason And Logic Author:Blaise Pascal
“This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.” ActionEvilHistoryHighestFunctionRegardTerrorDeedsWorthyPosterity Book:The Annals & The Histories Source: The Annals & The Histories
“The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.” PastUnderstandingHistoryMastersKeysFunctionHistorian Author:Edward Hallett Carr
“What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.” PastInterestHistoryFunctionCuriousBother Author:Adam Garfinkle
“The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins as the differences in form. If we could define clearly the differences in molecular constitution and functions of different kinds of organisms, there would be possible a more illuminating and deeper understanding of question of the evolutionary reactions of organisms than could ever be expected from morphological considerations.” IfsKindDifferentWould BeFormScienceUnderstandingDifferencesAnimalHistoryEvolutionFunctionConstitutionPlantSpeciesVariousDeeperExpectedSignificantReactionsConsiderationChemicalsDifferent KindsOrganismsIlluminatingDeeper Understanding Author:Ray Lankester
“Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a way of knowing the world is kin to Romantic literature, with its discourse about organic form and function. Biology is the fiction appropriate to objects called organisms; biology fashions the facts "discovered" about organic beings.” WorldWayFactsStoriesFormScienceLiteratureFictionKnowledgePracticeHistoryKnowingFashionObjectsAccountsFunctionHistoricalNarrativeAppropriateBiologyOrganismsDiscourse Author:Donna J. Haraway
“Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.” ActionHistoryFunctionDeliberation Author:Charles de Gaulle