Without self knowledge without understanding the working and functions of his machine man cannot be free he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex and the foundation of intelligence.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence his noblest function is the search for truth.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

With the world as it now presents itself there is something perverse and probably dysfunctional about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome the school-lottery migration the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form whether visual intellectual or musical.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination where they meet in the myth.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.