Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of… — Franz Cumont Copy Share Image
Real vectoring in space, real orbital mechanics, is very counterintuitive, very strange, and very hard to render. It's expensive, and there's a… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics is confusing and consciousness is confusing, so maybe they're the same. — Scott Aaronson Copy Share Image
My dad and I are very different people. For example, he's been stabbed; I'm afraid of bugs. He's a mechanic; I once… — Jason Mulgrew Copy Share Image
Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Go into the auto mechanic, you've got to know computers to be able to work on the cars. — Ann McLane Kuster Copy Share Image
Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying,… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a car mechanic and I wanted to race cars and the idea of trying to make something out… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
If all people learned to think in the non Aristotelian manner of quantum mechanics, the world would change so radically that most… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Digital mechanics predicts that for every continuous symmetry of physics there will be some microscopic process that violates that symmetry. — Edward Fredkin 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
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
All the same, the fundamental truths which govern that art are still unchangeable; just as the principles of mechanics must always govern… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
As readers, we want not only a strong story, but also characters we can relate to, characters that feel real. We have… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
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
Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet. — George Etherege Copy Share Image
Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
For me, running is a lifestyle and an art. I'm more interested in the magic of it than the mechanics. — Lorraine Moller Copy Share Image
