The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science. — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
Better a poor steam engine that runs, than a good one never finished. — R. G. LeTourneau Copy Share Image
The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science. — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids. — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth,… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
Everyone who has been in this industry has had a chance to participate in something very exciting. It is kind of like… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“By now there were whole new Industrial Revolutions going on in the Low Earths; the British seemed to have the building of… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men.… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
[I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
“steam boiler, delivering so and so many pounds of steam to its engines as long as the envelope can contain the pressure;… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
“In the nineteenth century, scientists described brains and minds as if they were steam engines. Why steam engines? Because that was the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“In the nineteenth century, scientists described brains and minds as if they were steam engines. Why steam engines? Because that was the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Being constantly active made time fly, and so it didn’t take long before the day of departure came. It was January 4,… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I'm fascinated by the idea of… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is… — O. Winston Link Copy Share Image
Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast… — Oliver Evans Copy Share Image
Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something… — Michael Bond Copy Share Image
![“[I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal whenever we produce electric power by steam engine, but there will be a time when there'll be no more coal to use. That time is not in the very distant…” quote by Charles Proteus Steinmetz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f3/charles-proteus-steinmetz-2577_available_i-predict-the-electricity-generated-by-w_1873352.jpg)
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