Device Quotes

377 quotes by 317 authors

No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and… — E. O. Wilson
I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing the dialectics of… — George Wald
I am proud to be a Christian. I believe not only as a Christian, but as a scientist as well. A wireless device can deliver… — Guglielmo Marconi
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business… — H. L. Mencken
A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie. — Vladimir Lenin
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. — Monica Edwards
You've probably got a device on you that can shoot decent video, so what's stopping you? — Steve Garfield
We seem to be heading for a state of affairs in which the determination of whether or not Doomsday has arrived will be made either… — Herbert York
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of… — Alfred Tarski
I can now state that I have succeeded in operating a motive device by means of [cosmic rays]. I will tell you in the most… — Nikola Tesla
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. — Benjamin Lee Whorf
Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human… — Eliot Porter
This is the essential element that cannot be measured by any analysis or device, and I believe it's at the heart of success in all… — Garry Kasparov
The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now take human life;… — Clarence Darrow
A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else. — Sam Smith
Time is a device to stop everything from happening at once ... space is a device to stop everything from happening in Cambridge. — Dharma Kumar
Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more nor less than… — Benjamin Tucker
Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet many capable economists… — James R Newman
The most popular labor saving device is still money. — Phyllis George
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device. — David Langford

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