Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
If the numbers mean anything, they tell us that vastly more life is left in the reviled internal-combustion engine than any of… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The harsh reality is that America moves on four wheels, powered by conventional internal-combustion engines. At this point, while the elite media… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
I believe fuel cells will finally end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine. . . Fuel cells could be the… — Bill Ford Copy Share Image
The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Technological revolutions are very hard to predict. My favourite example is someone in 1850 taking care of horses as a farrier. They… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty? — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If… — Miranda Richardson Copy Share Image
Hopefully the process is to spot things that would be grist for the funny mill. In some respects, the heavier subjects are… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“From the first smouldering taper to the elegant lanterns whose light reverberated around eighteenth-century courtyards and from the mild radiance of those… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion. — William Crookes Copy Share Image
In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We have a tremendous investment in facilities for (internal combustion engines, transmissions, and axles) and I can't see throwing them away just… — Henry Ford II Copy Share Image
For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took… — Carl Ludwig Copy Share Image
If I want a word, I make it. I don't like combustion. It's too quiet. I have some stuff in a state… — Julius Sumner Miller Copy Share Image
Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their… — Don Tapscott Copy Share Image
In every combustion there is disengagement of the matter of fire or of light. A body can burn only in pure air… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion… — Robert Mayer Copy Share Image
Creativity is the mother of all energies, nurturer of your most alive self. It charges up every part of you. When you're… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
To me the bicycle is in many ways a more satisfactory invention than the automobile. It is consonant with the independence of… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is a sort of spontaneous combustion--the oily rags of the head and heart. — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image