Best function & structure Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?”

Brain Function Wine Structure Drunkenness

“Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.”

Ifs Body Order Animal Team Conditions Machines Function Structure Mechanism Laborers

Book:Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

“Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.”

Years Firsts Made Europe Built Function Management Institutions Structure Financial Made It Germany Continental Financial Institutions Top Management

Author:Peter Drucker

“The elegant study... is consistent with the themes of modern cognitive neuroscience . Every aspect of thought and emotion is rooted in brain structure and function, including many psychological disorders and, presumably, genius. The study confirms that the brain is a modular system comprising multiple intelligences, mostly nonverbal.”

“The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.”

Mind Reality Understanding Building Essentials Function Structure Inventing Building Up

Author:Jean Piaget

“The first attempts to consider the behavior of so-called "random neural nets" in a systematic way have led to a series of problems concerned with relations between the "structure" and the "function" of such nets. The "structure" of a random net is not a clearly defined topological manifold such as could be used to describe a circuit with explicitly given connections. In a random neural net, one does not speak of "this" neuron synapsing on "that" one, but rather in terms of tendencies and probabilities associated with points or regions in the net.”

Way Firsts Doe Problem Used Speak Given Term Behavior Concerned Connections Function Relation Structure Series Tendencies Defined Regions Probability Systematic Circuits Neurons Manifold

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“Life's Solution builds a forceful case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes, not in terms of genetic details but rather their broad phenotypic manifestations. The case rests on a remarkable compilation of examples of convergent evolution, in which two or more lineages have independently evolved similar structures and functions.”

Two Term Cases Example Evolution Solutions Function Structure Details Manifestation Outcomes Remarkable Broads Lineage Predictability Compilation Structure And Function

Author:Simon Conway Morris

“Your understanding of the astral dimensions can help you alter structures in the physical dimensions. It is in and through the medium of the astral dimensions that all of the siddha powers function and work.”

Helping Understanding Function Structure Mediums Dimensions Mysticism Gaining Power

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable.”

“The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.”

Individual Evolution Elements Function Structure Tendencies Bondage

Book:Multiple Personality: An Experimental Investigation Into the Nature of Human Individuality

Source: Multiple Personality: An Experimental Investigation Into the Nature of Human Individuality

“A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.”

Energy Function Structure Cells Maintenance

Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“Soul one might say is more imperfectly infinite than spirit, because soul tends to abolish the ego-consciousness that it absorbs or overwhelms, reducing its particularizing structure to pure sublime feeling (immediacy); but spirit is more successfully infinite than soul, even though also more difficult and abstruse, because it digests the functions of consciousness into itself and thus preserves and deploys the senses and intelligence of conscious ego to higher ends.”

Soul Ends Feelings Might Spirit Difficult Consciousness Higher Pure Ego Conscious Function Infinite Structure Senses Preserves Sublime Reducing Abolish Immediacy

Author:Kenny Smith

“A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wiresto the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.”

“A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.”

Together Grows Cities Function Structure Working Together Organisms

Author:Jaime Lerner

“When looking at the brain, it is important to go beyond its structure to its function. This is because often in cognitive disorders, the structure of the brain is intact, but its function is compromised.”

Important Brain Function Structure Disorder Cognitive

Author:Aditi Shankardass

“Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.”

Humans Economic Human Nature Function Structure Rewards Contrary Socialism

Author:Frans de Waal

“Interpersonal experience shapes the mind as it continues to develop throughout the lifespan... Interactions with the environment, especially relationships with other people, directly shape the development of the brain's structure and function.”

People Mind Brain Environment Development Shapes Function Structure Interaction Relationships With Others Interpersonal Structure And Function

Book:The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

Source: The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

“To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative to understand the picture itself, not in order to uncover a lost reality, but to determine how a picture becomes a signifying structure of its own accord.”

Reality Seems Order Next Lost Greater Television Function Structure Determine Newspapers Magazines Cinema Retreat Imperatives Accord Interpreting Signifying

Author:Douglas Crimp

“The attitude of the liberal towards society is like that of the gardener who tends a plant and, in order to create the conditions most favorable to its growth, must know as much as possible about its structure and the way it functions.”

Knows Way Order Growth Attitude Conditions Function Structure Plant Gardener

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Meditators are shown to have thickening in parts of the brain structure that deal with attention, memory and sensory functions. This was found to be more noticeable in older, more practiced meditators than in younger adults which is interesting because this structure usually tends to get thinner as we age.”

Age Found Memories Interesting Deals Attention Brain Adults Function Structure Sensory

Author:Philippa Perry

“I think there should be a reworking of the value structure of art. The value is when the artist makes a first engagement with society. That work has the most value. That is the function of the artist. That result.”

Thinking Should Firsts Art Artist Values Results Function Structure Engagement

Author:Lawrence Weiner

“If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly.”

Ifs Mean Doe Function Structure

Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“The impresario function is about intervening with the company's more administrative management structure. It is about trying to establish a sense of boundaries and budgets and milestones and so forth on a project that does not necessarily lend itself to milestones. It is about translating between the intimate interior environment of the creative work team and the company's need to make money. And finally, it is about positioning the fruits of the creative process in the marketplace and selling them.”

“Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function.”

Thinking Brain Function Structure Disorder Autism Syndromes Savants Brain Function

Author:Darold Treffert

“In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.”

Eye Process Black Function Structure Boxes Cells Biology Digestion Immunity Black Boxes Structure And Function

Author:Michael Behe

“The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor.”

Ifs Way Doe Important Energy Term Imagination Worship Function Important Things Structure Cease Primaries Sunday Pastor My Imagination Pulpit Worship God

Author:Eugene H. Peterson

“Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long lasting structures? Aren't the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony? ... Besides, there is an attraction, a special charm in the colossal to which ordinary theories of art do not apply.”

“No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we labour to investigate the structure and function of the human system, whether we direct our attention to the classification and habits of the animal kingdom, or prosecute our researches in the more pleasing and varied field of vegetable life, we shall constantly find some new object to attract our attention, some fresh beauties to excite our imagination, and some previously undiscovered source of gratification and delight.”

Source: A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia

“No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an exception to exist in the cerebral hemispheres.”

“Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in series as hereditary characters. Among microorganisms the most striking example of inheritable and specific alterations in cell structure and function that can be experimentally induced and are reproducible under well defined and adequately controlled conditions is the transformation of specific types of Pneumococcus.”

“Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.”

Whole Science Certain Culture Social Support Health Type Development Healthy Tradition Accounts Function Structure Application Integrated Social Structure

Author:Talcott Parsons

“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.”

People Years Humans Brain Wonder Function Structure Complexes Multitudes Human Brain Brain Function

Author:Seymour S. Kety

“Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body. It may be an abnormality of temperament or form (structure). Symptom is a manifestation of some abnormal state in the body. It may be harmful as a colic pain or harmless as the flushing of cheeks in peripneumonia.”

Source: The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)

“It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.”

Trust Function Structure Data Data Structures

Author:Alan Perlis

“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.”

May Body Law Science Certain Natural Animal Groups Stage Development Demand Function Structure Species Patient Insight Adaptation Examination Affinity Coexistence

Author:Richard Owen

“I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which we assign for the variations in other functions, viz. difference of organization; and that the superiority of man in rational endowments is not greater than the more exquisite, complicated, and perfectly developed structure of his brain, and particularly of his ample cerebral hemispheres, to which the rest of the animal kingdom offers no parallel, nor even any near approximation, is sufficient to account for.”

“Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.”

Way Brain Expression Shapes Function Fundamentals Structure Determined Genes Structure And Function

Book:The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

Source: The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

“Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.”

Men World Work Secret Machines Function Structure Woods Invention Iron Inventor Hints Leather Inventing Anatomy Adapting Inventions And Inventors

Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

“The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to the laws of the organization of the nervous system, in general, and of the brain in particular, just as the knowledge of the functions of a sense is independent of the knowledge of the structure of its apparatus.”

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Author:Franz Joseph Gall

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