“As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical issues are involved. The hard part will be finding out what it means, because this poses intellectual problems of how to understand the participation of the genes in the functions of living cells.” HumansMeanHardProblemScienceEasyIssuesInvolvedFindingsProjectsIntellectualResearchFunctionCellsGenesParticipationSequenceGenomeGenome ProjectHuman Genome Project Author:Sydney Brenner
“A man, even if seriously sick or prevented in the exercise of its higher functions, is and will be always a man ... [he] will never become a 'vegetable' or an 'animal,'" the Pope said. "The intrinsic value and personal dignity of every human being does not change depending on their circumstances.” IfsMenHumansDoeSaidValuesHuman BeingsAnimalHigherCircumstancesExerciseDignitySickFunctionVegetablesPopeEuthanasiaIntrinsic ValuePersonal Dignity Author:Pope John Paul II
“In a structure as complex as the human brain a multitude of things can go wrong. The wonder is that for most people the brain functions effectively and unceasingly for more than 60 years.” PeopleYearsHumansBrainWonderFunctionStructureComplexesMultitudesHuman BrainBrain Function Author:Seymour S. Kety
“Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being.” HumansDoeHuman BeingsCreativityEnvironmentTalentDependsEgoFunctionUpbringing Book:Creativity: The Magic Synthesis Source: Creativity: The Magic Synthesis
“The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of punishment because it is so final. The human life is ended and the executed person is deprived of the opportunity to change, to restore the harm done or compensate for it.” HumansPersonsDoneFormLife IsOpportunityFunctionFinalsRevengeHarmPunishmentHuman LifePenaltiesSevereDeprivedDeath PenaltyOpportunity To Change Author:Dalai Lama
“Human beings are compelled to adopt a belief system; some paradigm to provide meaning, purpose, and understanding to our lives. A quick survey of the world shows that pretty much any idea will do - it need not reflect reality or truth, merely function to fascinate, distract, and compel. We are designed for belief, not for truth.” WorldNeedsHumansIdeasShowsRealityPurposeBeliefUnderstandingHuman BeingsOur LivesFunctionCompelledParadigmSurveysBelief Systems Author:Terry Rossio
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” HumansRaceEnvironmentFunctionEnvironmentalHuman RaceInabilityShortcomingsExponential Growth Author:Albert Allen Bartlett
“My fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential aid can supply every human defect; that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the People of the United States, a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good.” PeopleHumansMayStatesGodGovernmentPurposeUniverseNationsUnitedLibertyUnited StatesEssentialsFunctionInstrumentsAidsAdministrationAlmightyDefectsEmployedCouncilHomageGood GodFerventSupplicationBenedictionGreat Author Author:George Washington
“An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an animal in appropriate tissue culture fluid, and when we add an antigen, the lymphocytes will produce specific antibody molecules, in the absense of any nerve cells. I find it astonishing that the immune system embodies a degree of complexity which suggests some more or less superficial though striking analogies with human language, and that this cognitive system has evolved and functions without assistance of the brain.” HumansCultureLanguageAnimalBrainProduceDegreesFunctionAddPopulationEnormousCellsComplexityAppropriateNervesSuperficialAssistanceAstonishingFluidImmuneMoleculesAnalogiesCognitiveTissuesImmune SystemHuman LanguageVertebratesAntibodies Author:Niels Kaj Jerne
“The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.” WayWantHumansDifferentChallengesLinesHuman BeingsModernCenturyFunctionCleanArchitectureFrivolityModern ArchitectureClean Living Author:Jamie Lee Curtis
“Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.” NeedsHumansWholeGovernmentChurchFailingIndustryFunctionInstitutionsReconstructionHuman Freedom Book:Human Nature and the Social Order Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
“The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved.” PeopleThinkingWritingHumansIdeasShowsDifficultHuman BeingsConditionsBecomingInvolvedFunctionRedemptionCharmHuman ConditionBecoming Better Author:George Dzundza
“I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.” ThinkingFirstsHumansPersonsStillsTwoTruthLastsFormPoetrySpeakConsciousnessVisionPoetShapesEssentialsFunctionDareSensesTelling The TruthFirst PersonSpeak The TruthNewnessPioneering Author:Diane di Prima
“The problem isn't who is in charge. It's what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to function as machines. Or, actually, as mechanisms. Human emotion and sympathy are unprofessional. They are inappropriate to the exercise of reason. Everything which makes people good - makes them human - is ruled out. The system doesn't care about people, but we treat it as if it were one of us, as if it were the sum of our goods and not the product of our least admirable compromises.” PeopleIfsHumansReasonProblemCareEmotionProductsExerciseMachinesTreatsFunctionCompromiseGoodsMechanismAdmirableInappropriateHuman Emotions Book:The Gone-Away World Source: The Gone-Away World
“I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?)” IfsFeelsYearsHumansBodyWould BeUsedPleasureImagineHeardExampleUniqueFemaleFunctionMalesJustifyPossessedOrgansAccurateHuman Body Author:Gloria Steinem
“All appeals to Scripture are appeals to interpretations of Scripture. The only real question is: whose interpretation? People with differing interpretations of Scripture cannot set a Bible on a table and ask it to resolve their differences. In order for the Scripture to function as an authority, it must be read and interpreted by someone. According to "solo" Scriptura, that someone is each individual, so ultimately, there are as many final authorities as there are human interpreters.” PeopleHumansRealOrderAsksIndividualDifferencesAuthorityFunctionTablesFinalsScriptureAppealsResolveInterpretationCatholicismSoloInterpreterReal Questions Author:Keith Mathison
“Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.” HumansPlaySpecialFunctionHuman ExperienceSubordinatesPlaying GamesAdaptive Author:Johan Huizinga
“The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.” HumansMayEndsReasonPhilosophyRealitySpiritPureAuthorityUltimateFunctionPursuitDenialAssumptionSuspectsHidingFrankInquiryAdmissionHuman ThoughtHiding PlaceIncapacityUltimate Reality Author:Muhammad Iqbal
“That which is useless dies. Animals that fail to serve some useful purpose in the scheme of things slowly but surely become extinct. Let any part of the human body cease to perform its ordained function, and it withers-as when an arm is kept long in a sling. This same decree, that nothing useless is permitted to survive, runs through the mind of the industrial world.” WorldMindHumansLongBodyRunningPurposeDiesAnimalFailingFailureArmsSurvivalFunctionCeaseUselessSchemesHuman BodyDecreeSlowly But Surely Author:B. C. Forbes
“[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left for Muslims lies in their observance of the God-made law.” HumansMadeStatesLawLyingLeftRoomsFunctionIslamicLegislationObservanceVestsIslamic State Author:Abul A'la Maududi