Steam Quotes

241 quotes by 221 authors

On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents… — Diane Ackerman
A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or… — Charles Babbage
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without… — Henry Ward Beecher
In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor. — Vinoba Bhave
Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to… — James Buchan
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. — Anton Chekhov
James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the… — Jeremy Rifkin
The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable… — James Prescott Joule
Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine. — Napoleon Hill
It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite… — Winston Churchill
True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin. — Charles Baudelaire
Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark - spattered wheels and a hoarse… — Martin Amis
Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the beach while the… — Charles Sanders Peirce
New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction… — H. L. Mencken
I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is… — George Eliot
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these… — Charles Sanders Peirce
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric… — Charles Kingsley
Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led… — Edward Teller
For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a… — George Bernard Shaw

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