Mechanic Quotes
326 Mechanic quotes by 263 unique authors
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Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it.
— Niels Bohr
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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Schrodinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory but a dodge-and a very good dodge too.
— Arthur Eddington
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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
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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
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Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.
— Aaron Baddeley
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My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport.
— Gabrielle Reece
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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
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[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.
— Eugene Wigner
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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
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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
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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
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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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