Famous quotes containing the words prior, knowledge and/or function:
“Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?”
—Matthew Prior (1664–1721)
“A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel’s only morality.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)
“The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.”
—Leonardo Da Vinci (1425–1519)