Best Steam Engines Quotes

39 Steam Engines quotes by 33 unique authors

• The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of… — William Stanley Jevons
• 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
• The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can… — Oliver Evans
• 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
• You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of… — Hermann von Helmholtz
• Everyone who has been in this industry has had a chance to participate in something very exciting. It is kind of like early steam engines… — Bill Gates
• I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I… — Clyde Tombaugh

Who Wrote These Steam Engines Quotes

33 authors contributed a total of 39 Steam Engines Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 Steam Engines Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
• 2 Steam Engines Quotes by Unknown Author
• 2 Steam Engines Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
• 2 Steam Engines Quotes by Clyde Tombaugh
• 2 Steam Engines Quotes by Bill Gates
• 1 Steam Engines Quote by Winston Churchill
• 1 Steam Engines Quote by William Tecumseh Sherman
• 1 Steam Engines Quote by William Stanley Jevons
• 1 Steam Engines Quote by Steven Johnson
• 1 Steam Engines Quote by Scott Westerfeld
• 1 Steam Engines Quote by Rudolf Rocker
• 1 Steam Engines Quote by Robert Fulton
• 1 Steam Engines Quote by Richard Owen
• 1 Steam Engines Quote by Peter Singer
• 1 Steam Engines Quote by Oliver Evans
• 1 Steam Engines Quote by Lawrence Joseph Henderson
• 1 Steam Engines Quote by L. Frank Baum
• 1 Steam Engines Quote by Joseph Heller
• 1 Steam Engines Quote by John Sununu
• 1 Steam Engines Quote by John Stuart Mill
• 1 Steam Engines Quote by Jeremy Rifkin
• 1 Steam Engines Quote by James Prescott Joule
• 1 Steam Engines Quote by Hermann von Helmholtz
• 1 Steam Engines Quote by George William Russell
• 1 Steam Engines Quote by Frank Chodorov