Believe Quote by George Eliot
“Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.”
“Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.”
![“In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.” quote by Andrew Carnegie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/976/andrew-carnegie-2115_complicated_in-my-life-i-did-not-understand-steam-ma_2257747.jpg)
![“The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is the most beautiful machine that we ever made, there's just nothing like it.” quote by O. Winston Link](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fe8/o-winston-link-44323_action_the-smoke-and-the-fire-and-the-speed-the_1954367.jpg)
![“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.” quote by George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9be/george-eliot-84_agony_w-e-must-learn-to-accommodate-ourselves_12409.jpg)
