Potential Energy Function

Famous quotes containing the words potential, energy and/or function:

    “The real community of man ... is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.”
    —Allan Bloom (1930–1992)

    “Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called “self-interestedness.” This was not a portrait of man “warts and all.” It was all wart.”
    —George F. Will (b. 1941)

    “Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)