Mechanic Quotes - Page 12

• There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Looks, Machines

  John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.35, Penguin

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• A lot of the physical flirtation with fear I did early on in my career, when I was a much younger person - stuff I wouldn't do now. But I was very interested in the mechanics of risk and fear in those days. And I found out fear pretty much always feels the same, whether it's doing a rock climb or speaking in front of an audience.

  Tim Cahill

  Rocks, Careers, Risk

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• I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the ends desired.

  Aminu Kano

  Mean, Government, Gossip

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• It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating. If a woman wears a high-heeled shoe it changes the apparent musculature of the leg so that you get an effect of twanging sinew, of tension needing to be released. Her bottom sticks out like an offering. At the same time, the lofty perch is an expression of vulnerability, she is effectively hobbled and unable to escape. There is something arousing about this declaration that she is prepared to sacrifice function for form.

  Stephen Bayley

  Fashion, Sacrifice, Offering

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• I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

  Gary Coleman

  Intelligent, Opinion, Journalism

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• As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.

  Len Goodman

  Long, Car, Miles

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• If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.

  Marc Andreessen

  Morning, Real, People

  "Andreessen on Charlie Rose: 'I Am Creating A Fund'". Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. February 20, 2009.

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• A system such as classical mechanics may be 'scientific' to any degree you like; but those who uphold it dogmatically - believing, perhaps, that it is their business to defend such a successful system against criticism as long as it is not conclusively disproved - are adopting the very reverse of that critical attitude which in my view is the proper one for the scientist.

  Karl Popper

  Attitude, Believe, Successful

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.28, Routledge

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• I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Marketing, Clerks, Dorms

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• Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy the efforts of the patriot as of the philosopher, to exclude its influence if possible, from social life. The good are rare enough at best. There is no reason to subdivide them by artificial lines. But whether we shall ever be able so far to perfect the principles of society as that political opinions shall, in its intercourse, be as inoffensive as those of philosophy, mechanics, or any other, may well be doubted.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Philosophy, Political Opinions, Evil

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.137, Algora Publishing

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• Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Intuition, Actors, Scripts

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• You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.

  H. G. Wells

  Warrior, Thinking, Has Beens

  "Fictional character: The Boss". "Things to Come", 1936.

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• Will an intelligent spectator not admire the prodigeous structures of Stone-Henge because he does not know by what law of mechanics they were raised?

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Intelligent, Law, Stones

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• Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Law, Interesting, Quantum

  "Lawrence Krauss On 'A Universe From Nothing'". Interview with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 13, 2012.

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• Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.

  Steven Weinberg

  Marriage, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not.

  Eugene Wigner

  May, Materialism, Quantum

  Eugene Paul Wigner (2012). “Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses”, p.252, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he had acute sensibility to the higher forces. Fire taught him secrets that no other animal could learn; running water probably taught him even more, especially in his first lessons of mechanics; the animals helped to educate him, trusting themselves into his hands merely for the sake of their food, and carrying his burdens or supplying his clothing; the grasses and grains were academies of study.

  Henry Adams

  Running, Men, Animal

  Henry Adams (2009). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.726, The Floating Press

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• Non-physicality may soon come to dominate our reality. Thanx Quatum Mechanics!

  Phil Collins

  Reality, May, Physicality

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• It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may be totally different cultures using identical tools-but the tools settle the possibilities; you can't have interstellar trade without spaceships. A race limited to a single planet, possessing a high knowledge of mechanics but with its basic machines of industry and war requiring a large capital investment, will inevitably tend toward collectivism under one name or another. Free enterprise needs elbow room.

  Poul Anderson

  War, Technology, Names

  Poul Anderson (2011). “Trader to the Stars: Polesotechnic League”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of his or her life writing fiction, it is hardly surprising that the pleasures, worries, and mechanics of fiction-making should enter the work.

  Norman Lock

  Writing, Worry, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I favour an interpretation of quantum mechanics (the 'Everett interpretation') according to which reality branches in any chancy quantum situation. On this view, Schrödinger's set-up will give rise to in two future branches of reality, one with a live cat, and one with a dead cat - and the talk of '50% chances' just indicates that the two branches are both equally real futures of the cat that originally entered the box.

  David Papineau

  Real, Cat, Views

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• In quantum mechanics there is A causing B. The equations do not stand outside that usual paradigm of physics. The real issue is that the kinds of things you predict in quantum mechanics are different from the kinds of things you predict using general relativity. Quantum mechanics, that big, new, spectacular remarkable idea is that you only predict probabilities, the likelihood of one outcome or another. That's the new idea.

  Brian Greene

  Real, Ideas, Issues

  "Professor Brian Greene answers everything you wanted to know about string theory and the multiverse". "Lateline", www.abc.net.au. February 26, 2016.

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• A cowboy, a lawyer, and a mechanic watched Queen of the Damned,” I murmured. Warren—who had once, a long time ago, been a cowboy—snickered and wiggled his bare feet. “It could be the beginning of either a bad joke or a horror story.” “No,” said Kyle, the lawyer, whose head was propped up on my thigh. “If you want a horror story, you have to start out with a werewolf, his gorgeous lover, and a walker.

  Patricia Briggs

  Queens, Cowboy, Horror Stories

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.641, Penguin

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• Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

  Anne Tyler

  Writing, Mind, Caught

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• Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Art, Opportunity

  "The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California".

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