Quotes about Structure

All the traditional reasons put forth for "needing" a church building collapse under careful scrutiny. We so easily forget that the early Christians turned the world upside down without them (see Acts 17:6). They grew rapidly for three hundred years without the help (or hindrance) of church buildings.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

You can't have a value structure without a hierarchy. They're the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.

She uses a formula when writing a short story, which goes ABDCE, for Action, Background, Development, Climax, and Ending.

Genes are effectively one-dimensional. If you write down the sequence of A, C, G and T, that's kind of what you need to know about that gene. But proteins are three-dimensional. They have to be because we are three-dimensional, and we're made of those proteins. Otherwise we'd all sort of be linear, unimaginably weird creatures.

History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.

how to structure a speech: introduction, three main points, peroration, and conclusion.