Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The... 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
A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by… — Thomas Nelson Page Copy Share Image
The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The valuable properties of this cement depend in a great measure on the mode of preparing it for use. The mixing should… — Canvass White Copy Share Image
The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In Joel's view, that reformation begins with people going o the trouble and expense of buying directly from farmers they know -… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There is no question that an important service is provided to investors by investment companies, investment advisors, trust departments, etc. This service… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may… — Poul Anderson 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
It is not scholarship alone, but scholarship impregnated with religion, that tells on the great mass of society. We have no faith… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
In a Democracy, the real rulers are the dexterous manipulators of votes, with their placemen, the mechanics who so skillfully operate the… — Konstantin Pobedonostsev Copy Share Image
...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It seems to me that we must make a distinction between what is "objective" and what is "measurable" in discussing the question… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in… — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image
The quantum entered physics with a jolt. It didn't fit anywhere; it made no sense; it contradicted everything we thought we knew… — David C. Cassidy Copy Share Image
There was a time when only specialized Christian missionaries needed to be able to defend the gospel of Jesus Christ against the… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities,… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of the people are at present freeholders... The time is not distant when this country will abound with mechanics and manufacturers… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
As far as the mechanics of how the music was made, there's no denying: Endtroducing was extremely simple. That's not to denigrate… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Nope. I just find a good mechanic now and then. You know, to keep all my parts in good working order. Like… — Kati Wilde Copy Share Image
And in that narrow cockpit I wept, as I shall never weep again, when I felt the concrete brush against his wheels… — Pierre Clostermann Copy Share Image
There are many things that we still don't understand about the universe, right? Einstein struggled to bring quantum mechanics and gravity together… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Over time, I started becoming more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort… — Moby 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
As an adult I discovered that I was a pretty good autodidact, and can teach myself all kind of things. And developed… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
But, as we have seen, movement does not require a mover, and modern quantum mechanics has shown that not all effects require… — Victor J. Stenger 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
There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
It is this that, finally, I will try to teach my sons about sex, after I've explained fertile periods and birth control… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I don't Twitter. I can't even remember my password name. I have problems with electronics, so what I've done is hire a… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
When Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
