“The same polarity of the male and female principle exists in nature; not only, as is obvious in animals and plants, but in the polarity of the two fundamental functions, that of receiving and penetrating. It is the polarity of earth and rain, of the river and the ocean, of night and day, of darkness and light, of matter and spirit.” TwoMatterLightEarthSpiritNightAnimalPrinciplesDarknessOceanRainFemaleRiversFunctionFundamentalsPlantMalesObviousReceivingLight And DarknessPolarity Book:THE ART OF LOVING Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“Much of the early engineering development of digital computers was done in universities. A few years ago, the view was commonly expressed that universities had played their part in computer design, and that the matter could now safely be left to industry. [...] Apart from the obvious functions of keeping in the public domain material that might otherwise be hidden, universities can make a special contribution by reason of their freedom from commercial considerations, including freedom from the need to follow the fashion.” NeedsYearsMatterReasonDoneMightLeftViewsSpecialFashionDesignMaterialsDevelopmentIndustryComputerYears AgoFunctionIncludingUniversityObviousContributionConsiderationDigitalEngineeringDomainPublic Domain Author:Maurice Wilkes
“Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.” UsePoetryLiteratureRecordsInformationArgumentFunctionObviousVersesHistoricAnalytics Author:George Steiner
“In this rigged, two-party system, third parties almost never win a national election. It's obvious what our function is in this constricted oligarchy of two corporate-indentured parties - to push hitherto taboo issues onto the public stage, to build for a future, to get a young generation in, keep the progressive agenda alive, push the two parties a little bit on this issue and that.” LittlesTwoYoungWinningBitsPartyIssuesAliveGenerationsStageLittle BitThirdsFunctionElectionObviousCorporateAgendasProgressiveTabooOligarchyRiggedThird PartiesYoung GenerationTwo Party System Author:Ralph Nader
“There are certain ways, narrative forms, that do not function as a continuation, for example, of 3D movies. You see, what is obvious to me is virtual reality or immersive 360 degrees virtual reality is not somehow a part of 3D movies, and it is not a new form of video games, it's neither, it is something completely new, something different, and nobody has come up yet with real convincing content.” WayDifferentRealRealityFormCertainGamesExampleDegreesFunctionCome UpObviousVideoNarrativeConvincingVirtual RealityContinuation Author:Werner Herzog
“We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence the genome's function - are much more important than we realised.” ImportantUnderstandingInfluenceFunctionObviousConventionalRealisedGeneticsGenome Author:Robert Winston
“The most obvious feature of the brain is that it is not homogeneous, but composed of different regions. There are no intrinsic moving parts, no obvious way of knowing where to start to understand what is actually happening, or what functions are taking place.” WayDifferentMovingBrainKnowingHappeningsFunctionObviousFeaturesRegionsHomogeneousMoving Parts Author:Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
“Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated changes, during which they often acquire organs which have no function, and which, after remaining visible for a short time, disappear without leaving a trace ... To the Darwinian, the explanation of such facts is obvious. The stage when the tadpole breathes by gills is a repetition of the stage when the ancestors of the frog had not advanced in the scale of development beyond a fish.” WayFactsScienceCoursesGrowthSimpleAnimalStageDevelopmentFunctionSeriesLeavingSimplicityFishesObviousComplicatedBreatheDisappearScalesDevelopingExplanationVisibleAcquireAncestorOrgansRepetitionStraightforwardFrogsShort TimeTadpoles Author:Francis Maitland Balfour
“[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of the function of the state. The theory that the state originates in an agreement between men was assailed by the German thinkers and the historical, organic, evolutionary idea substituted for it.” MenIdeasStatesGovernmentSchoolInfluenceTheoryFunctionRelationHistoricalObviousAgreementContractsThinker Author:Charles Edward Merriam
“I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.” MightFormHouseBrokenFunctionObviousBrutalEleganceDecor Author:Meg Ryan