"RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose……" — Ambrose Bierce
"RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs."
More Apparatus Quotes
- Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. — Ambrose Bierce
- Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and… — Winston Churchill
- Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons… — Frederic Bastiat
- Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you… — Mario Savio
- Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to… — Walter Benjamin
- One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing… — Norman Mailer
- Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the… — Ambrose Bierce
- Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked… — A. Whitney Brown
- The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people… — Ludwig von Mises
- Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or… — Humphry Davy
- A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head. — Charles Kettering