Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science. — James Bryant Conant 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
Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids. — Frank Chodorov 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
The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science. — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that… — James Prescott Joule Copy Share Image
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title.… — Stendhal 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
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
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
I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
It's hot rain and humid days and broken thermostats. It's screaming and raging steam engines and wanting to take your clothes off… — Tahereh Mafi 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
My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York… — Robert Fulton Copy Share Image
Once the steam engine went away and we started moving into burning fossil fuels - not just burning them, but everything we… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
The US in some ways has been the best. Who figured out shale gas? Although that wasn't a good thing [for CO2… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The production of motion in the steam engine always occurs in circumstances which it is necessary to recognize, namely when the equilibrium… — Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot Copy Share Image
The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“Conglomerations of factories gave rise to the new industrial cities. Steam engines were later applied to mobile uses – the railway and… — Edward A. Hudson Copy Share Image
James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean… — Jeremy Rifkin 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
“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
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
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
The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science. — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
Better a poor steam engine that runs, than a good one never finished. — R. G. LeTourneau 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
![“Once the steam engine went away and we started moving into burning fossil fuels - not just burning them, but everything we do with oil - we've been experiencing [these problems] at an accelerated rate. The scary end-game scenario is getting closer and closer, about what we're going to be able to…” quote by Don Cheadle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c44/don-cheadle-10276_able_once-the-steam-engine-went-away-and-we-s_1150401.jpg)
![“The US in some ways has been the best. Who figured out shale gas? Although that wasn't a good thing [for CO2 levels], it was very innovative. It's led to low-cost energy. Who figured out nuclear power? Largely the United States. Once you get past the steam engine, which is mostly British, then the…” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fe/bill-gates-137_british_the-us-in-some-ways-has-been-the-best-wh_251716.jpg)
![“The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is the most beautiful machine that we ever made, there's just nothing like it.” quote by O. Winston Link](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe8/o-winston-link-44323_action_the-smoke-and-the-fire-and-the-speed-the_1954367.jpg)
