Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam…

There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity…

— David Brewster

The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is the most…

— O. Winston Link

The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's…

— Richard Owen

My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany…

— Robert Fulton

Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special…

— Michael Bond

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

— George Bernard Shaw

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.

— Peter Singer

Better a poor steam engine that runs, than a good one never finished.

— R. G. LeTourneau

Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.

— Henry David Thoreau

The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is…

— James Prescott Joule

James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of…

— Jeremy Rifkin

The production of motion in the steam engine always occurs in circumstances which it is necessary to recognize, namely when the equilibrium of caloric…

— Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only…

— George Eliot

The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.

— Thomas Carlyle

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

— George Bernard Shaw