Gradually Varied Function

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

“The sleek, expensive girls I teach,
Younger and pinker every year,
Bloom gradually out of reach.”
—William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)

“The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.”
—Lord Denning (b. 1899)

“Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.”
—Susanne K. Langer (1895–1985)