Mechanic Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Stories, Intriguing, Human Condition

  Interview With Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.

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• If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.

  James Lovelock

  Years, Evolution, Theory

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• For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality. Nor does it imply that mere thoughts can change external events. Effects still require causes, so if you want to change the universe, you need to act on it.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Reality, Events, Doe

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• The quantum entered physics with a jolt. It didn't fit anywhere; it made no sense; it contradicted everything we thought we knew about nature. Yet the data seemed to demand it. ... The story of Werner Heisenberg and his science is the story of the desperate failures and ultimate triumphs of the small band of brilliant physicists who-during an incredibly intense period of struggle with the data, the theories, and each other during the 1920s-brought about a revolutionary new understanding of the atomic world known as quantum mechanics.

  David C. Cassidy

  Nature, Struggle, Science

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• When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the fore again. It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.

  Eugene Wigner

  Law, Way, Consciousness

  Eugene Paul Wigner (2013). “The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner: Historical, Philosophical, and Socio-Political Papers. Historical and Biographical Reflections and Syntheses”, p.28, Springer Science & Business Media

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• I believe that for permanent survival, man must balance science with other qualities of life, qualities of body and spirit as well as those of mind - qualities he cannot develop when he lets mechanics and luxury insulate him too greatly from the earth to which he was born.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Life, Believe, Men

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• Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard and earnestly in the New Lecture Hall. And when he was done, Professor Whitehead, who presided, thanked him for his efforts, and not least for 'leaving the vast darkness of the subject unobscured'.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Appreciation, Effort, Leaving

  J. Robert Oppenheimer (1947). “Physics in the Contemporary World”

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• It is a good idea to 'shop around' before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence of his mechanic. Don't be shy! After all, you're paying for it.

  Dave Barry

  Doctors, Ideas, Cynical

  Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.9, Rodale

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I'm not a goddamned faith healer! I don't talk to God! I'm a mechanic and her goddamned engine was broken! --Joanne

  C.E. Murphy

  Broken, Healer, Engines

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• My father was in the kitchen putting a new washer in the kitchen faucet. He looked relieved to see Morelli standing in the hallway. He'd probably prefer I bring home someone useful, like a butcher or a car mechanic, but I guess cops are a step up from undertakers.

  Janet Evanovich

  Father, Home, Car

  Janet Evanovich (2001). “Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.387, Simon and Schuster

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• ...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.

  Brian Greene

  Our World, Physics, Quantum

  Brian Greene (2010). “The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory”, p.111, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring death home to anyone- it doesn't catch them unawares and start the whisper in their skulls that says- 'One day you are going to die.

  Tom Stoppard

  Home, Skulls, One Day

  Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.83, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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• Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if any at all. What we have to study, therefore, is not psychology-for that applies only to a developed man-but mechanics. Man is not only a machine but a machine which works very much below the standard it would be capable of maintaining if it were working properly.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Men, Psychology, Would Be

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• People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics - technical things instead of feeling.

  John Cassavetes

  People, Feelings, Today

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• Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

  Paul Auster

  Reality, Trying, Elements

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