Clockwork Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clockwork God Godly Imagine Physics Universe
A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time. — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the clock, something magical is happening that… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
“The mechanical clock,” as Lewis Mumford wrote, “made possible the idea of regular production, regular working hours and a standardized product.” In short, without… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Some have argued that because the universe is like a clock, there must be a Clockmaker. As the eighteenth-century British empiricist David Hume pointed… — Thomas Cathcart Copy Share Image
In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery. — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
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Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
There is more to living than not dying," he said. "Look at the way you live Will. You burn as bright as a star. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I think there is something very consoling in feeling lost in space but also feeling grounded, and seeing that all of this is part… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
Miss Cecily," she gasped, and then her eyes went to Will. She clapped a hand over her mouth, turned, and bolted back into the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
In January we start saving money, getting out of credit card debt, funding our retirement accounts, and we're doing wonderful. Then, every single year… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Dear me," said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. "Is it because I'm better-looking than you? — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
