Physical Structure Quotes

We should have a national policy whereby in law and its administration no distinctions on the basis of sex should be made except such as are reasonably justified by differences in physical structure, biological or social function.

I'm reminded of the arm, and the body, and the appendage.

No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.

What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.

The body is an amazing system.

The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.

I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.

Coming from an athletic background, the scientific aspect is a really big part of understanding beauty and how the body works.

A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply "fineness of nature.

Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there. These patterns of events are locked in with certain geometric patterns in the space. Indeed, each building and each town is ultimately made out of these patterns in the space, and out of nothing else; they are the atoms and molecules from which a building or a town is made.

The various parts of the body cannot be perceived as simple units and have no clear relationship to one another. In almost every detail the body is not the shape that art has led us to believe it should be.

A form comes out of a combination of force and matter.

If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.

A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave its inner mental processes alone.

The belly carries the legs, and not the legs the belly.