Mechanic Quotes

• If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspiration, Understanding, Quantum Physics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force, time, space, motion indicate) can occupy one severely enough; likewise, in mathematics, the meaning of imaginary quantities, of the infinitesimally small and infinitely large and similar matters.

  Heinrich Hertz

  Science, Space, Principles

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• I was happier when I was doing a mechanic's job.

  Henry Ford

  Jobs, Stewardship

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• The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

  Confucius

  Life, Business, Philosophical

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• Ask any mechanic; instructions were the things you read when all else failed.

  Barbara Seranella

  Instruction, Asks

  Barbara Seranella (2013). “An Unacceptable Death”, p.75, Macmillan

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• You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspiring, Teacher, Looks

  Twitter post from Jan 13, 2017

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• War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

  Alberto Moravia

  Clever, War, Soldier

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• A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Artist, Design, Synthesis

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.116, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

  Walter Scott

  Law, History, Historical

  Guy Mannering ch. 37 (1815)

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• A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

  Carrie Snow

  Inspiring, Women, Glowing

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• I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.

  Thomas Nelson Page

  Faces, Action, Creation

  Thomas Nelson Page (2008). “John Marvel, Assistant”, p.354, Wildside Press LLC

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• The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer...form the great body of the people of the United States they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Men, Law

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

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• It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Support, Paper

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• It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general. The farmer philosophizes in terms of crops, soils, markets, and implements, the mechanic generalizes his experiences of wood and iron, the seaman reaches similar conclusions by his own special road; and if the scholar keeps pace with these it must be by an equally virile productivity.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Men, Iron, Views

  Charles Horton Cooley (1909). “Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order”, Glencoe, Ill., Free P

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• Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Chemistry, Physics, Quantum

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• I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Fake People, Thinking, Physics

  The Character of Physical Law ch. 6 (1965)

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• If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Thinking, Quantum, Programming

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• A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.

  Joseph H. Greenberg

  Screw Ups, Language, Screws

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• The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Book, Invention

  Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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• I haven't always thrown hard, but eventually my (velocity) caught up with my mechanics.

  Tim Lincecum

  Velocity, Caught, Thrown

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• When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics

  Victor Frederick Weisskopf

  Music, Two, Tough

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• The mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another, that is the fundamental thing.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Color, Fundamentals, Next

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• Entanglement is not one but rather the characteristic trait of quantum
  mechanics.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Entanglement, Characteristics, Quantum

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• If everything is made up of little particles and all the little particles follow quantum mechanics, then shouldn't everything just follow quantum mechanics?

  Aaron D. O'Connell

  Motivation, Inspiration, Littles

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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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