The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids. — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science. — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
It's hot rain and humid days and broken thermostats. It's screaming and raging steam engines and wanting to take your clothes off… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast… — Oliver Evans Copy Share Image
Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title.… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that… — James Prescott Joule Copy Share Image
Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something… — Michael Bond Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
How did Don Jackson influence the field of family therapy? How did Watts influence the steam engine? He made it. Others have… — Richard Fisch Copy Share Image
The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but… — John Timbs Copy Share Image
It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
The production of motion in the steam engine always occurs in circumstances which it is necessary to recognize, namely when the equilibrium… — Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot Copy Share Image
James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“In the nineteenth century, scientists described brains and minds as if they were steam engines. Why steam engines? Because that was the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“Being constantly active made time fly, and so it didn’t take long before the day of departure came. It was January 4,… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“In the nineteenth century, scientists described brains and minds as if they were steam engines. Why steam engines? Because that was the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Better a poor steam engine that runs, than a good one never finished. — R. G. LeTourneau Copy Share Image
Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science. — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I'm fascinated by the idea of… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men.… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
“By now there were whole new Industrial Revolutions going on in the Low Earths; the British seemed to have the building of… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
