Mechanic Quotes - Page 2

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

  Niels Bohr

  Dizzy, Quantum, Contemplating

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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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• 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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• 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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• For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.

  Fernando Alonso

  Jobs, Destiny, Long

  Pitpass Interview, www.pitpass.com. June 5, 2005.

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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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• Having faith in the plan of salvation includes steadfastly refusing to be diverted from our true identities and responsibilities. In the brief season of our existence on earth we may serve as a plumber, professor, farmer, physician, mechanic, bookkeeper, or teacher. These are useful activities and honorable designations; but a temporary vocation is not reflective of our true identities. Matthew was a tax collector, Luke a physician, and Peter a fisherman. In a salvational sense, 'so what!'

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Teacher, Self Esteem, Responsibility

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The underlying attraction of the movement of water and sand is biological. If we look more deeply we can see it as the basis of an abstract idea linking ourselves with the limitless mechanics of the universe.

  Geoffrey Jellicoe

  Rain, Ideas, Rivers

  Geoffrey Jellicoe (1993). “Geoffrey Jellicoe: the studies of a landscape designer over 80 years”, Antique Collectors Club Ltd

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• They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace. Men without curiosity. Without doubt. Both in their own way truly, terrifyingly, adult. They looked out into the world and never wondered how it worked, because they knew. They worked it. They were mechanics who serviced different parts of the same machine.

  Arundhati Roy

  Men, Childhood, Doubt

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• Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.

  Jasper Fforde

  Thinking, Knowing, Eight

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• The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Loss, Sarcasm, Mind

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• The Snow White the midnight the moon tales of the mechanics

  Marissa Meyer

  Moon, White, Snow

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• Just because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Mean, Religion, Doe

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• If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.

  Niels Bohr

  Confused, Science, Quantum

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• Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906 by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

  David Goodstein

  Science, Hands, Carrying On

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• Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Quantum, Framework

  Werner Heisenberg (1984). “Gesammelte Werke”

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• One of the things I always believed in was my dad came to America and he was a very talented musician, but he couldn't make a living that way so he had to support his family as an auto mechanic which he also loved doing. He was also such a great dad because when I first told him I thought I wanted to go into show business, his response was okay, that's interesting.

  Denis Leary

  Dad, America, Interesting

  "Denis Leary Wants David Bowie & Steven Tyler In ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 – Comic Con". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. July 12, 2015.

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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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• Also, think about your intentionality - are you getting lost in the method? or coming from the intentionality, the purpose? You don't want to do the mechanics without the consciousness.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Thinking, Purpose

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