Structure Quotes

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine. (Pablo Picasso)
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. View quote
Václav Havel
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. View quote
James Thurber
No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. View quote
Richard Owen
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost. View quote
Arthur Miller
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. View quote
Nikola Tesla
For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation. View quote
Kim Campbell
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. View quote
Freda Adler
Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power. View quote
Marcel Marceau
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country. (Margaret Mead)
What I have done is to show the importance for the working of the economic system of what may be termed the institutional structure of production. View quote
Ronald Coase
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries. View quote
Gary Becker
Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories. View quote
Brigham Young
The map is not the territory ... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map... View quote
Alfred Korzybski
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. View quote
George Orwell
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests sometimes that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words. View quote
Northrop Frye
Disintegration of structure equals information loss. View quote
Gregory Benford
The cognitive functioning of a human brain depends on a delicate orchestration of many factors, especially during the critical stages of embryo development-and it is much more likely that this self-organizing structure, to be enhanced, needs to be carefully balanced, tuned, and cultivated rather than simply flooded with some extraneous potion. View quote
Nick Bostrom
Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending” analysis of the facts in the light of their arrested and denied possibilities, pertains to the very structure of social theory. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure. (Carroll Quigley)
Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand. View quote
John Polkinghorne
I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a noble thing. View quote
Winston Churchill
It is sexual energy which governs the structure of human feeling and thinking. View quote
Wilhelm Reich
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. View quote
Albert Einstein