Mechanic Quotes - Page 15

• But some of these theories are so bold that they can clash with reality: they are the testable theories of science. And when they clash, then we know that there is a reality; something that can inform us that our ideas are mistaken.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Reality, Ideas

  Karl Popper, W.W. Bartley, III (2013). “Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics: From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.3, Routledge

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• The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Hands, Shapes, Form

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1989). “Coleridge's Criticism of Shakespeare”

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• It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.

  Stephen Bayley

  Shoes, Insecurity, Static

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• I've always regretted the fact that I've never formally studied and learned the mechanics of writing music.

  Stan Getz

  Regret, Writing, Facts

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• Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.

  Immanuel Kant

  Science, Law, Doe

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• I mean, if you love what you do-whether you're an auto mechanic or you sew clothes or you cook-it's all about personal passion and love that really makes the thrust to the level that you want to get it to.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Passion, Mean, Clothes

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• ...contemporary physicists come in two varieties. Type 1 physicists are bothered by EPR and Bell's Theorem. Type 2 (the majority) are not, but one has to distinguish two subvarieties. Type 2a physicists explain why they are not bothered. Their explanations tend either to miss the point entirely (like Born's to Einstein) or to contain physical assertions that can be shown to be false. Type 2b are not bothered and refuse to explain why.

  David Mermin

  Science, Two, Missing

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• But conversation, choose what theme we may,
  And chiefly when religion leads the way,
  Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs,
  Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.

  William Cowper

  Summer, Water, May

  William Cowper, “Conversation”

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• ...physics is the study of the structure of consciousness.

  Gary Zukav

  Science, Study, Consciousness

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

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• Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses; which means that they may always be superseded, and that they may possibly be deduced from probability estimates. Yet denying causality would be the same as attempting to persuade the theorist to give up his search; and that such an attempt cannot be backed by anything like a proof.

  Karl Popper

  Giving Up, Mean, Science

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.244, Routledge

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• The discontinuous 'reduction of the wave packets' which cannot be derived from Schroedinger's equation is ... a consequence of the transition from the possible to the actual.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Transition, Wave

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• Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle is replaced by a string, which is more spread out.

  Edward Witten

  Uncertainty Principle, Principles, Doe

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• I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM-drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it." My instincts concerning syntax and mechanics are better than your own, I can tell, with all due respect. But it transcends the mechanics. I'm not a machine. I feel and believe. I have opinions. Some of them are interesting. I could, if you'd let me, talk and talk.

  David Foster Wallace

  Believe, Thinking, Interesting

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• Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences, but especially so in physics, in which the results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue. They may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take.

  Fritjof Capra

  Responsibility, Science, Issues

  "The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1983.

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• There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a capable mechanic.

  Liz Vassey

  Maintenance, Lows, Bunch

  "10 Things You Don't Know About Women: Liz Vassey". www.esquire.com. October 31, 2006.

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• The physics of the 21st century shall deal essentially with non-spatial matter and non-spatial mechanics.

  Kedar Joshi

  Matter, Physics, Century

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• Practice the mechanics of making photographs until it becomes second nature.

  Fred Picker

  Photography, Practice, Photograph

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• The chilly December day! two shivering bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio first felt their homemade contraption whittled out of hickory sticks, gummed together with Arnstein's bicycle cement, stretched with muslin they'd sewn on their sister's sewing machine in their own backyard on Hawthorn Street in Dayton, Ohio, soar into the air above the dunes and the wide beach at Kitty Hawk.

  John Dos Passos

  Sister, Beach, Air

  John Dos Passos (2013). “The Big Money: Volume Three of the U.S.A. Trilogy”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows us that what fascinated him about nature was its variety, its infinite adaptability, the fitness and the individuality of all its parts. By contrast what made astronomy a pleasure to Newton was its unity, its singleness, its model of a nature in which the diversified parts were mere disguises for the same blank atoms.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Notebook, Nature, Science

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “The Common Sense of Science”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Music, People, Characteristics

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• ...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where the shoe pinches...Physical conceptions are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Shoes, Mind

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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've always had good mechanics and stuff like that.

  Mark Buehrle

  Stuff

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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 think I write a lot, but it's always a continuous stream of consciousness, I guess. It's a mechanic. It's a discipline and it's a way to have supplies for the songs to come.

  Olivia Merilahti

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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