Mechanic Quotes - Page 19

• The importance of infinite processes for the practical exigencies of technical life can hardly be overemphasized. Practically all applications of arithmetic to geometry, mechanics, physics and even statistics involve these processes directly and indirectly.

  Tobias Dantzig

  Statistics, Physics, Infinite

  Tobias Dantzig (2005). “Number: The Language of Science”, Dutton Juvenile

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• Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger.

  Dennis Miller

  Foam, Giants, Fingers

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• I'm not worrying about my mechanics-and that's a fun feeling. It's nice to be confident and not worry about where my hands and feet are.

  Morgan Ensberg

  Fun, Nice, Hands

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• I've always had good mechanics and stuff like that.

  Mark Buehrle

  Stuff

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• I don't think about delivery. I don't think about mechanics. I just think about throwing hard.

  Eric Gagne

  Thinking, Throwing, Delivery

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• Renormalization is just a stop-gap procedure. There must be some fundamental change in our ideas, probably a change just as fundamental as the passage from Bohr's orbit theory to quantum mechanics. When you get a number turning out to be infinite which ought to be finite, you should admit that there is something wrong with your equations, and not hope that you can get a good theory just by doctoring up that number.

  Paul Dirac

  Ideas, Numbers, Orbit

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• The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick).

  Robert Hooke

  Art, Practice, Design

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• According to quantum mechanics there is no such thing as objectivity. We cannot eliminate ourselves from the picture. We are part of nature, and when we study nature there is no way around the fact that nature is studying itself.

  Gary Zukav

  Objectivity, Way, Facts

  Gary Zukav (1979). “The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics”, Bantam

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• Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of. Quick: try to think of a single movie about the horrors of Stalinism. This is not a failure of imagination. This is moral meltdown.

  Mona Charen

  Dream, Thinking, Imagination

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• In 1905, when you went motoring, you took your mechanic. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the automobile, but buying a Ford wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a mechanic on board. In 1955, when you used your computer, you took your programmer. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the computer, but buying a micro wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a programmer.

  Gerald Weinberg

  Years, Twenties, Boards

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• One of the hardest things for me as an exec was always, particularly as you progress further in the system, is that you're pushed further away from the day to day, the mechanics of making a movie.

  Hutch Parker

  Progress, Hardest, Day To Day

  Source: collider.com

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• The Americans made the decision out of principle to buy Russian equipment for us because our pilots and mechanics were trained on Russian aircraft. But, then, as a result of the Ukraine crisis, the US Congress imposed sanctions on Russia and the equipment could no longer be delivered to us. I am proud of our security and defense forces.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Russia, Ukraine, Decision

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I work in celestial mechanics, but I am not interested in getting to the moon.

  Marston Morse

  Moon, Not Interested, Celestial

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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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• 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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• In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Sleep, Safe, Fortune

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• Over time, I started becoming more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity. I still love the teachings of Christ, but I also believe that the human condition prevents us from having any true objective knowledge of the universe. All human belief systems are inherently flawed. If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic. Also, there's nothing in the actual Bible that limits a Christian in their interest in science. Anti-science is a function of ignorant fundamentalism.

  Moby

  Christian, Teaching, Believe

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• No one really understands quantum mechanics.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Quantum, Quantum Mechanics

  "Does quantum mechanics carry the seeds of its own destruction?". Physics World magazine, 1991.

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• A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every literature major should take a watered-down physics course or that a corporate lawyer should stay abreast of quantum mechanics. Rather, it means that an appreciation for the methods of science is a useful asset for a responsible citizenry. What science teaches us, very significantly, is the correlation between factual evidence and general theories, something well illustrated in Einstein's life.

  Walter Isaacson

  Appreciation, Mean, Literature

  Walter Isaacson (2008). “Einstein: His Life and Universe”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• No. I had successfully solved the difficulty of finding a description of the electron which was consistent with both relativity and quantum mechanics. Of course, when you solve one difficulty, other new difficulties arise. You then try to sove them. You can never solve all difficulties at once.

  Paul Dirac

  Trying, Quantum, Arise

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• Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance

  Rene Thom

  Ignorance, Statistics, Quantum

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