#function

Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on. ↗

— Michael Behe

#anything #arise #biological #complex #function

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. ↗

— Ernst Fischer

#art #break #change #changeable #decay

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. ↗

— Michael Graves

#any #between #equity #function #pragmatic

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#aesthetic #almost #always #architecture #aspect

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#child #development #duty #ever #expansion

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it. ↗

— Frank Norris

#function #life #novelist #sees #upon

‎"Broken does not mean non-functioning, or incapacitated, it does however mean ready for repair. ↗

— Shawn Boreta

#incapacitated #inspirational #non-functioning #repaired #inspirational

The function of a genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve. ↗

— Hugh Trevor-Roper

#function #genius #give #mediocrity #new

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence. ↗

— Ned Rorem

#artist #blaze #day #divine #each

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth. ↗

— Morris West

#divine #function #god #his #image