#mechanism

In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them. ↗

— Michael Behe

#accurate #anatomy #astounded #century #deliver

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#directed #life #mechanism #offensive #repetitious

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#any #bird #endangered #endangered species #endangered species act

It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance. ↗

— Baldwin Spencer

#civil society #embedded #governance #hemisphere #institutions

As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#centuries #christianity #correspondingly #declined #followed

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#continues #discipline #each #elsewhere #entrusted

The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#economic #economic growth #global #growth #increased

The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms. ↗

— Andrew Weil

#best way #body #depend #into #mechanisms

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#automatic #because #believed #commonly #fail

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#because #confused #coping #feel #food