Mechanical Quotes

325 quotes by 279 authors

The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking… — Aaron Scharf
In early life I had felt a strong desire to devote myself to the experimental study of nature; and, happening to see a glass containing… — John William Draper
When not protected by law, by popular favor or superstition, or by other special circumstances, [birds] yield very readily to the influences of civilization, and,… — George Perkins Marsh
The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the United States, by… — Russell Kirk
Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you? — Andy Warhol
If we were magically shrunk and put into someone's brain while she was thinking, we would see all the pumps, pistons, gears and levers working… — Gottfried Leibniz
No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that… — Socrates
Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the construction… — Charles Babbage
All matter/space has some degree of "self" in it, and this self, or anyway some aspect of the personal, is something which infuses all matter/space… — Christopher Alexander
Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of… — Ludwig von Mises
I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is and also the most demanding. It requires body control, hand-eye coordination, quickness, flat-out speed,… — David Foster Wallace
I can never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model, I can understand… — Lord Kelvin
What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds… — Bruce Lee
Though they play an important role in the early stages, the techniques should not be too mechanical, complex, or restrictive. Remember, you are expressing the… — Bruce Lee
We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically. — Marilyn Ferguson
One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is… — Max Weber
That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no… — E F Schumacher
Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it...I approach and pull away from… — Dziga Vertov
If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived. — Bruce Lee

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