The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
The science behind Interstellar is interesting, because some of it is absolutely real astrophysics and orbital mechanics, some of it is theoretical… — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
As a singer, you can't hear what's coming out of your throat; you're only hearing it from the inside, so you need… — Stephen Costello Copy Share Image
This tremendous friction which cannot, as in mechanics, be reduced to a few points, is everywhere in contact with chance, and brings… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
While many questions about quantum mechanics are still not fully resolved, there is no point in introducing needless mystification where in fact… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
[In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
My mothers dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was… — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image
Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is a great deal we never think of calling religion that is still fruit unto God, and garnered by Him in… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me… — Robert L. Devaney Copy Share Image
There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics is just completely strange and counterintuitive. We can't believe that things can be here [in one place] and there [in… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
The treatment of the indeterminacy principle as absolute and final can then be criticized as constituting an arbitrary restriction on scientific theories,… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
[Heisenberg's seminal 1925 paper initiating quantum mechanics marked] one of the great jumps—perhaps the greatest—in the development of twentieth century physics. — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
There was a period where I dressed sort of like a mechanic and I looked really schlumpy, and I thought, "This is… — Jeanine Tesori Copy Share Image
There's a branch of math called the foundations of math. It's kind of like quantum mechanics. It's about how this very complex… — Tristan Perich Copy Share Image
No. I had successfully solved the difficulty of finding a description of the electron which was consistent with both relativity and quantum… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
I find enough mystery in mathematics to satisfy my spiritual needs. I think, for example, that pi is mysterious enough (don't get… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
I think at this point, there's a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can't ignore a lot of… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
The support is absolutely crucial. If you have the right people helping you in the lead up to a major event, then… — Chris Hoy Copy Share Image
What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get… — Matthew Crawford Copy Share Image
For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
I think it's very sad, when you look at Barack Obama, as an example, lands Air Force One in China, and they… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Grain isn't structured like a screen door that you're looking through, but pixels are. Film-based grain is just all over the place,… — Greg MacGillivray Copy Share Image
The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It… — Alan Parsons Copy Share Image
Clearing his throat, Kai murmured, "You have no idea how to dance, do you?" Cinder fixed her gaze on him, mind still… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
It's all about media culture and people on television, and that feeling comfortable, friendly, or warm toward a candidate [in the elections]… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image