Tail/function

Famous quotes containing the words tail and/or function:

    “The tiger in the tiger-pit
    Is not more irritable than I.
    The whipping tail is not more still
    Than when I smell the enemy
    Writhing in the essential blood
    Or dangling from the friendly tree.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

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