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
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
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
To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but… — John Timbs Copy Share Image
It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can… — William Tecumseh Sherman 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
How did Don Jackson influence the field of family therapy? How did Watts influence the steam engine? He made it. Others have… — Richard Fisch 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
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
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 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
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
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
Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and… — Charles Kingsley 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
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