Quote by Herman Melville

“A man is only as good as his tools.”

— Emmert Wolf

“Man is not only that creature that forges tools, that reasons, and that walks upright. Man is the creature that looks up. Man praises.”

— Anthony Esolen

“What good would the moon be to men? Even of their own planet what have they made but a battleground and theatre of infinite…

— H.G. Wells

“But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“The man who eventually reached the moon would be traveling in a vessel made of earthly materials.”

— Pierre Boulle

“...we find only one tool, neither created nor invented, but perfect: the hand of man.”

— Julio Ramón Ribeyro

“They put a man on the moon. Can’t they find some way to end the scourge of algebra?”

— Huston Piner

“There may come a time at last that I Shall take the hidden paths that run East of the moon west of the sun.”

— Anonymous

“It was almost impossible to operate with the best gear. The most effective weapons were the ones most hardest to obtain. More often than…

— Tom Wood

“There are men whose energies hardly ever carry them beyond looking for the thing they want.”

— Anthony Trollope

“He has come to be the great man he thought he wanted to be. If this is true, then he is not a man.…

— John Steinbeck

“At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!”

— Dorothy L. Sayers