“Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter is indispensable even for a proper appreciation of the behavior of the function for real arguments. It is therefore essential that the original determination of the function concept be broadened to a domain of magnitudes which includes both the real and the imaginary quantities, on an equal footing, under the single designation complex numbers.” RealValuesNumbersEqualEssentialsBehaviorConceptsDeterminationArgumentLogicFunctionOriginalsComplexesAppreciationInsightCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningLatterQuantityImaginaryIndispensableDomainMagnitudeOntologyAnalyticsDesignationComplex Numbers Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss
“Perhaps the most sophisticated and highly evolved system is that originated by Joseph Scogna. I was impressed by the profound insights into the relationship between my own bodily functions and the psychological and emotional issues that emerged.” My OwnIssuesEmotionalFunctionProfoundInsightPsychologicalSophisticatedImpressedBodily Functions Author:Rudolph Ballentine
“When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well (perhaps indispensably) as a rhetorical device. Such cases do not function as speculations in the pejorative sense - as silly stories that provide insight into complex mechanisms - but rather as idealized illustrations to exemplify a difficult point of theory. (Other fields, like philosophy and the law, use such conjectural cases as a standard device.” NeedsWellsPhilosophyStoriesUseLawDifficultCasesExampleFieldsTheoryStandardsScientistFunctionComplexesInsightSillyDevicesMechanismAbstractionSpeculationIllustrationRhetoricalHypothetical Book:Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
“You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or not being loved is really a function of the people you encounter and not of yourself. That is an immensely liberating insight.” PeopleNeedsWellsMightRealizingConfidenceFunctionInsightEncountersLiberatingBeing LovedPoints In Life Author:Erica Jong
“Being a father can unreason your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. Its sad that childrens open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum.” PlayFatherFunWonderApproachFunctionInsightFadesMinimumAdolescenceFlexibleWorldviewFadingBeing A FatherFathering Author:Clyde Edgerton
“If one writing contributed more than any other to the framework in which this work Sowell's Knowledge and Decisions developed, it would be an essay entitled 'The Use of Knowledge in Society,' published in the American Economic Review of September 1945, and written by F. A. Hayek . . In this plain and apparently simple essay was a deeply penetrating insight into the way societies function and malfunction, and clues as to why they are so often and so profoundly misunderstood.” IfsWayWritingUseWould BeSimpleDecisionWrittenEconomicFunctionInsightReviewsSeptemberEntitledClueEssaysMisunderstoodFrameworkHayekMalfunctionUse Of Knowledge Author:Thomas Sowell
“The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a writer I don't want to read political literature all the time. It would be terribly boring and, you know, abrasive, but just reading the insights, you know, partaking of the insights of a writer into phenomena, into society, into human relationships, both on a micro level and on a macro level, is already a function.” KnowsWantHumansMeanWould BePoliticalSpiritReadingLiteratureLevelsCreativityConditionsFunctionBoringInsightHuman ConditionHuman SpiritHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsMacro Author:Wole Soyinka
“A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for disease, new machines based on brain function, further insights into our nature and how we know.” KnowsAgeBrainDiseaseMajorsMachinesFunctionFoundationInsightCuresNew AgeSpawnBrain FunctionBrain Science Author:Gerald Edelman
“The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately founded upon the examination of fully developed species;-But to obtain an insight into the laws of development,-the signification or bedeutung, of the parts of an animal body demands a patient examination of the successive stages of their development, in every group of Animals.” MayBodyLawScienceCertainNaturalAnimalGroupsStageDevelopmentDemandFunctionStructureSpeciesPatientInsightAdaptationExaminationAffinityCoexistence Author:Richard Owen