Steam Quotes
241 quotes by 221 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
— Anton Chekhov
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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
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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
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Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.
— Napoleon Hill
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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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
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[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
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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
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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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