Function

Famous quotes containing the word function:

“The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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

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