Mechanic Quotes - Page 17

• Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.

  Roy H. Williams

  Truth, Two, Half

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• Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.

  Roger Penrose

  Physics, Quantum, Quantum Mechanics

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• To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Needs, Hypothesis, Celestial

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• I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect. . . Geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Math, Science, Conviction

  "Solid Shape". Book by Jan J. Koenderink, 1990.

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• The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.

  Isaac Newton

  Math, Circles, Doe

  Isaac Newton (1966). “Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World: The motion of bodies”, p.17, Univ of California Press

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• Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has existed begotten of that success that still other planets lay beyond, only waiting to be found.

  Percival Lowell

  Discovery, Hands, Waiting

  Percival Lowell, Lowell Observatory (1915). “Memoir on a trans-Neptunian planet”

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• It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really do get a lot done - very rarely include techniques for 'getting motivated' or 'feeling inspired'. Quite the opposite: they tend to emphasise the mechanics of the working process, focusing not on generating the right mood, but on accomplishing certain physical actions, regardless of mood.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Artist, Opposites, People

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• I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational.

  Paloma Picasso

  Thinking, Interesting, Car

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• Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time.

  Seth Lloyd

  Computer, Break, Quantum

  "Life, the Universe, and Everything". WIRED Interview, www.wired.com. March 1, 2006.

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• I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems.

  Willis Lamb

  Numbers, Interesting, Problem

  "Super classical quantum mechanics: the best interpretation of non relativistic quantum mechanics". American Journal of Physics 69, p. 413-422, 2001.

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• I do not forget that I am a mechanic. I am proud to own it. Neither do I forget that the apostle Paul was a tentmaker; Socrates was a sculptor; and Archimedes was a mechanic.

  Andrew Jackson

  Proud, Forget, Apostle Paul

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• Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works.

  Taner Edis

  Religion, Able, Quantum

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• When I'm in the game [softball], it's not so much mechanics. It's more of just trusting my teammates, trusting myself, trusting my preparation that we've put in to get there. When you're in the game, it's go-mode. There's going to be times when you're tweaking things but when you're in that game mode, you just want to think about that one next pitch.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Thinking, Games

  "Jennie Finch Interviewed by Gary Leland". fastpitch.tv. March 13, 2014.

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• It is not scholarship alone, but scholarship impregnated with religion, that tells on the great mass of society. We have no faith in the efficacy of mechanic's institutes, or even of primary and elementary schools, for building up a virtuous and well conditioned peasantry, so long as they stand dissevered from the lessons of Christian piety.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Christian, Education, School

  Thomas Chalmers (1833). “On Political Economy: In Connexion with the Moral State and Moral Prospects of Society”, p.342

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• Though films become more daring sexually, they are probably less sexy than they ever were. There haven't been any convincing love scenes or romances in the movies in a while. (Nobody even seems to neck in theaters any more.) ... when the mechanics and sadism quotients go up, the movie love interest goes dead, and the film just lies there, giving a certain amount of offense.

  Renata Adler

  Movie, Sexy, Lying

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• Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

  Margery Allingham

  Doctors, Tick, Pleasure

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• We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics.

  J. Willard Gibbs

  Giving Up, Inquiry, Branches

  "Elementary Principles in Statististical Mechanics". Book by J. Willard Gibbs (Preface, p. 9), 1902.

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• All of modern physics is governed by that magnificent and thoroughly confusing discipline called quantum mechanics ... It has survived all tests and there is no reason to believe that there is any flaw in it. We all know how to use it and how to apply it to problems; and so we have learned to live with the fact that nobody can understand it.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Believe, Discipline, Confusing

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• We're dealing with fundamentalists... the Amish are fundamentalists, but they don't try and hijack a carriage at needlepoint. And, if you're ever in Amish country and you see a man with his hand buried in a horse's ass, that's a mechanic. Remember that.

  Robin Williams

  Country, Horse, Men

  "Robin Williams Live on Broadway". Documentary, www.imdb.com. July 14, 2002.

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• To me, the advantage of the recorder is that it is so natural. I love the fact that it is just a piece of wood, that there are almost no mechanics involved.

  Michala Petri

  Pieces, Woods, Facts

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• I was teaching airplane mechanics when I realized it was more fun to make them laugh. I was laid off one more time and I never looked back, although it was nice to have a steady paycheck and benefits.

  Alonzo Bodden

  Fun, Nice, Teaching

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• You can no more trust Jesus and not intend to obey him than you could trust your doctor and your auto mechanic and not intend to follow their advice. If you don't intend to follow their advice, you simply don't trust them. Period.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Doctors, Advice

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• If I was a mechanic and someone called me and said their car would not start, I would say, "Hey - maybe a killer is after you!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Car

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• As an adult I discovered that I was a pretty good autodidact, and can teach myself all kind of things. And developed a great interest in a number of different things from how to build a street hot rod from the ground up to quantum mechanics, and those two different kinds of mechanics, and it was really in the sciences, quantum mechanics, molecular biology, I would begin looking at these things looking for ideas, but in fact you don't read it for ideas you read it for curiosity and interest in the subject.

  Dean Koontz

  Ideas, Two, Numbers

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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• Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have seen psychology grow up, and we've seen the development of neurophysiology and other much more sophisticated science, but only in the recent years have the tools of quantum mechanics been applied to anything representing human scale size.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Growing Up, Years, Psychology

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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