Mechanic Quotes

326 Mechanic quotes by 263 unique authors

Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it. — Niels Bohr
It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead it seems more… — Werner Heisenberg
[W]hen Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words of… — William J. Clinton
Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying, we come "underneath,"… — Richard J. Foster
It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before me ... At… — Werner Heisenberg
"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ...… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but… — Albert Einstein
Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto unexplored regions, formed… — Werner Heisenberg
As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics, the latter is… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Schrodinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory but a dodge-and a very good dodge too. — Arthur Eddington
I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force, time, space, motion… — Heinrich Hertz
Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum… — Freeman Dyson
Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics. — Aaron Baddeley
My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport. — Gabrielle Reece
After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the… — John Hartford
[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness. — Eugene Wigner
When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the… — Eugene Wigner
The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum… — Bernard d'Espagnat
After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the… — Franz Cumont
As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a particular… — Robert Fulton

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