Gradually Varied Function

Famous quotes containing the words gradually, varied and/or function:

    “The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Who has not felt the beauty of a woman’s arm?—the unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “We are thus able to distinguish thinking as the function which is to a large extent linguistic.”
    —Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1934)