Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.
Rita Mae Brown

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
Thomas Huxley

Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
Dave Barry

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.
Stokely Carmichael

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
William Masters

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

So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices.
Merton Miller

So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.
Benjamin Tucker

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
An Wang

That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.
Charles Eastman

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Paul Berg

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
Susan Sontag

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.
Suzi Quatro

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
George Santayana

The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.
James F. Byrnes

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
Thomas A. Edison

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
Lewis Mumford

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.
Wendell Willkie

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
Max Eastman