Function

Famous quotes containing the word function:

“It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

“Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.”
—Arnold Bennett (1867–1931)