Best Steam Engines Quotes
39 Steam Engines quotes by 33 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
— George Bernard Shaw
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
— Peter Singer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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