Mechanic Quotes - Page 2

• Within every desire is the mechanics of its fulfillment.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Desire, Fulfillment

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• Very rarely do I work on mechanics now. I tend to solve problems within the music itself.

  Marc-Andre Hamelin

  Problem, Solve

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. November 8, 2013.

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• Mechanic slaves
  With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall
  Uplift us to the view.

  William Shakespeare

  Uplifting, Views, Hammers

  William Shakespeare, David Bevington (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.260, Cambridge University Press

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• Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.

  Niels Bohr

  Dizzy, Quantum, Contemplating

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• If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic.

  Moby

  Christian, Labels, Agnostic

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

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• I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton's theory of mechanics.

  Michio Kaku

  Appreciate, Helping, Newton

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.

  Eric Bana

  Jobs, Dad, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Never trust a mechanic who drives new cars. They're either charging too much money for their work, or they can't keep an old car running - maybe both.

  Patricia Briggs

  Running, Car, Too Much

  Patricia Briggs (2007). “Blood Bound”, p.47, Penguin

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• For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the whistler running from the scene. Liesel did not. The book thief saw only the mechanics of the words--their bodies stranded on the paper, beaten down for her to walk on. Somewhere, too, in the gaps between a period and the next capital letter, there was also Max. She remembered reading to him when he was sick. It he in the basement? she wondered. Or is he stealing a glimpse of the sky again?

  Markus Zusak

  Running, Book, Reading

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• Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos.

  Lyall Watson

  Artist, Expression, Space

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• I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use measured language lie's The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotic's, numbing pain In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold But large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Weed, Pain, Lying

  1850 In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 5, l.1-8.

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• What're quantum mechanics?" "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Discworld, Quantum

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “Eric: Discworld: The Unseen University Collection”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• Yeah, but you’re a god of fate. Can’t you change that? (Kat) You’re thinking like a child, Katra. Things that appear simple very seldom are. It’s like the mechanic who goes to fix the carburetor and in doing so accidentally puts a hole in the radiator and causes even more damage. Every person on this planet is connected. Sometimes those lines are easy to see, and others are more complex. You change one insignificant thing and you change the very core of humanity. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Children, Fate, Simple

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• It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

  Simone Weil

  God, Matter, Impossible

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.214, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of tricks, but is based on the elementary laws of mechanics, a study of the equilibrium of the human body, the ways in which it is disturbed, how to recover your own and take advantage of the shifting of the center of gravity of the other person. The first thing that is taught is how to fall down without being hurt, that alone is worth the price of admission and ought to be taught in all our gyms.

  John Dewey

  Hurt, Fall, Law

  John Dewey, Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey (1921). “Letters from China and Japan”

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• Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the solid bodies. Lagrange has incorporated his own analysis of the problem with his general treatment of mechanics, and since his time M. Poinsôt has brought the subject under the power of a more searching analysis than that of the calculus, in which ideas take the place of symbols, and intelligent propositions supersede equations.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Intelligent, Ideas

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• Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Impact, Special, Bangs

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• Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying, we come "underneath," where we calmly and deliberately surrender control and become incompetent.

  Richard J. Foster

  Prayer, Way, Assuming

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.

  Elon Musk

  Physics, Quantum, New Things

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words of one imminent researcher, that he had learned the language in which God recreated the universe. Today we are learning the language in which God created life. We are gaining ever more awe for the complexity, the beauty, the wonder of God's most devine and sacred gift.

  William J. Clinton

  God, Science, Understanding

  "Remarks on the Completion of the First Survey of the Human Genome". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 26, 2000.

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• If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Giving, Fundamentals, Way

  "THE SIMPLE AND THE COMPLEX Part I: THE QUANTUM AND THE QUASI-CLASSICAL with MURRAY GELL-MANN, Ph.D". Interview with Jeffrey Mishlove, www.intuitionnetwork.org.

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• It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before me ... At first I was deeply shaken ... I was so excited that I could not think of sleep. So I left the house ... and awaited the sunrise on top of a rock.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Sleep, Science, Night

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• "The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer. ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Science, Long, History

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• The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.

  Randall Munroe

  Roles, Complicated, Gender

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