Mechanical Quotes

325 quotes by 272 authors

Sex is not a mechanical act that fails for lack of technique, and it is not a performance by the male for the audience of… — Garrison Keillor
When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I am… — Arthur Nersesian
It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible. — John Leeson
Perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure in scientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the clear recognition of unity in… — Roger Fry
This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or… — Herbert Spencer
In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant… — Ivy Lee
I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not… — Isaac Newton
Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger… — Alan Turing
A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying. — F. R. Leavis
In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained… — Georges Canguilhem
It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one… — Robert Boyle
Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary. — Robert A. Heinlein
The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting… — Umberto Eco
They say much about the Einstein's theory now. According to Einstein the ether does not exist and many people agree with him. But it is… — Nikola Tesla
Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach… — Nikola Tesla
The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You… — William Tecumseh Sherman
I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again physicists have been… — Steven Weinberg
They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of art and science,… — Emma Goldman
Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new… — Marshall McLuhan
The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and… — Marshall McLuhan

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