Machine Quotes

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According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to… — Gottfried Leibniz
Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us… — Frank Lloyd Wright
The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a… — James Prescott Joule
Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns. — Benjamin Disraeli
Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of… — William Stanley Jevons
Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one… — Anatole France
I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I decided to follow… — John Charles Polanyi
It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. — Isidor Isaac Rabi
Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to… — Bill Janklow
The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like the other organs… — Steven Pinker
Meditation simply means a discipline that makes you capable of being aloof and detached from your mind. So even if the mind is sick, your… — Rajneesh
Meditation means undoing what the society has done to you. It has reduced you to a machine; you have to de-automatise yourself, you have to… — Rajneesh
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty,… — Thomas Jefferson
I'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but I knew that starting little businesses and trying to sell greeting… — Steve Case
We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism. — Mao Zedong
The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of… — Mao Zedong
I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I… — Ronald Reagan
Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something… — David H. Hubel
My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain… — Wilder Penfield
The eye and brain are not like a fax machine, nor are there little people looking at the images coming in. — Torsten Wiesel

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