Steam Engine Quotes

33 quotes by 30 authors

• Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids. — Frank Chodorov
• Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting… — Thomas Carlyle
• The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire. — Thomas Carlyle
• History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and… — Joseph Heller
• Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No ruler could ever… — Rudolf Rocker
• Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better. — George Bernard Shaw
• [I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz
• Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made… — Augustus William Hare
• If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of… — Charles Fort
• The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world. — Peter Singer
• Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax… — John Sununu
• A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own… — John Stuart Mill
• Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash… — Erik Brynjolfsson

Who Wrote These Steam Engine Quotes

30 authors contributed a total of 33 Steam Engine Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 Steam Engine Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
• 2 Steam Engine Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
• 1 Steam Engine Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
• 1 Steam Engine Quote by Frank Chodorov
• 1 Steam Engine Quote by Joseph Heller
• 1 Steam Engine Quote by Rudolf Rocker
• 1 Steam Engine Quote by Charles Proteus Steinmetz
• 1 Steam Engine Quote by Augustus William Hare
• 1 Steam Engine Quote by Charles Fort
• 1 Steam Engine Quote by Peter Singer
• 1 Steam Engine Quote by John Sununu
• 1 Steam Engine Quote by John Stuart Mill
• 1 Steam Engine Quote by Erik Brynjolfsson
• 1 Steam Engine Quote by Jeremy Rifkin
• 1 Steam Engine Quote by James Prescott Joule
• 1 Steam Engine Quote by Winston Churchill
• 1 Steam Engine Quote by Charles Sanders Peirce
• 1 Steam Engine Quote by Edward Teller
• 1 Steam Engine Quote by John Timbs
• 1 Steam Engine Quote by Lawrence Joseph Henderson
• 1 Steam Engine Quote by Richard Owen
• 1 Steam Engine Quote by Richard Fisch
• 1 Steam Engine Quote by L. Frank Baum
• 1 Steam Engine Quote by George William Russell
• 1 Steam Engine Quote by David Brewster