Mechanics Quotes

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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can. — Paul Auster
In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined. — David Bohm
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. — Niels Bohr
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune. — Taylor Caldwell
The underlying attraction of the movement of water and sand is biological. If we look more deeply we can see it as the basis of… — Geoffrey Jellicoe
Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard and earnestly in… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation. — Grantland Rice
The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class of young men engaged in… — Hugh Miller
There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody.… — Anthony de Mello
For me, running is a lifestyle and an art. I'm more interested in the magic of it than the mechanics. — Lorraine Moller
The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of tricks, but is… — John Dewey
Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane. Even if you… — Clement of Alexandria
I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics. — Richard P. Feynman
Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the solid bodies. Lagrange… — James Clerk Maxwell
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

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