Mechanic Quotes - Page 20

• A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every literature major should take a watered-down physics course or that a corporate lawyer should stay abreast of quantum mechanics. Rather, it means that an appreciation for the methods of science is a useful asset for a responsible citizenry. What science teaches us, very significantly, is the correlation between factual evidence and general theories, something well illustrated in Einstein's life.

  Walter Isaacson

  Appreciation, Mean, Literature

  Walter Isaacson (2008). “Einstein: His Life and Universe”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• No one really understands quantum mechanics.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Quantum, Quantum Mechanics

  "Does quantum mechanics carry the seeds of its own destruction?". Physics World magazine, 1991.

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• There was a period where I dressed sort of like a mechanic and I looked really schlumpy, and I thought, "This is not who I am. This is not who I want to be." It was a very important moment for me - to not hide.

  Jeanine Tesori

  Who I Am, Important, Want

  "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.

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• The treatment of the indeterminacy principle as absolute and final can then be criticized as constituting an arbitrary restriction on scientific theories, since it does not follow from the quantum theory as such, but rather from the assumption of the unlimited validity of certain of its features, an assumption that can in no way ever be subjected to experimental proof.

  David Bohm

  Science, Principles, Doe

  David Bohm (2004). “Causality and Chance in Modern Physics”, p.47, Routledge

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• Probably over half of America does not have a passport. If young people could spend two weeks of their life in India or pick an African country to go to for 2-3 weeks and really see how life can be. That might be a real good thing because I think they would see things even if the trip was a nightmare. I think they might understand more of the mechanics of the world.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.sinicalmagazine.com

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• The field was wet, the lane was wet, and the spirits of my mechanic and helper were damp.

  Amelia Earhart

  Fields, Spirit, Lanes

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• A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.

  Pam Brown

  Giving, Doe, Bears

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• The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Science, Views

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1863). “Translations of the philosophical works”, p.68

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• Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.

  John Gay

  Men, Gambling, Quality

  John Gay (2013). “The Beggar's Opera and Polly”, p.95, OUP Oxford

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• I've always been amazed at the vastness of America itself and what it does and how it does it. I'm interested in the mechanics of what makes this country happen, the power structures, the natural splendor.

  Michael Light

  Country, America, Splendor

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance

  Rene Thom

  Ignorance, Statistics, Quantum

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• God works in many ways His wonders to perform. But He's not a skillful mechanic. A man drived over a cliff and "by a miracle" he only breaks his back. It would be more divine if he were a better driver and stayed on the road.

  Paul Goodman

  Men, Miracle, Would Be

  Paul Goodman (1968). “People or personnel: decentralizing and the mixed systems ; and, Like a conquered province : the moral ambiguity of America”

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• The fact that we can describe the motions of the world using Newtonian mechanics tell us nothing about the world. The fact that we do, does tell us something about the world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Doe, World, Facts

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• I became more and more interested in the mechanics of creativity.

  Genrich Altshuller

  Creativity

  Genrich Altshuller, Lev Shulyak (1996). “And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared: TRIZ, the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving”, p.4, Technical Innovation Center, Inc.

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• To a large degree, we are still bound to the modern scientific spirit, that characterizes reality merely by its material and mechanic aspects, without including life, consciousness and the intimate communion with that which poets, musicians and artists bring us in their magnificent works.

  Leonardo Boff

  Artist, Reality, Environmental

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• No. I had successfully solved the difficulty of finding a description of the electron which was consistent with both relativity and quantum mechanics. Of course, when you solve one difficulty, other new difficulties arise. You then try to sove them. You can never solve all difficulties at once.

  Paul Dirac

  Trying, Quantum, Arise

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• There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies.

  Thomas Browne

  Moving, Men, Levels

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• I wanted to be a car mechanic and I wanted to race cars and the idea of trying to make something out of my life wasn't really a priority. But the accident allowed me to apply myself at school. I got great grades. Eventually I got very excited about anthropology and about social sciences and psychology, and I was able to push my photography even further and eventually discovered film and film schools.

  George Lucas

  Photography, School, Ideas

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• The physical mechanics of sex are pretty funny unless you are engaged in them. Then they are, of course, marvelous.

  Charlton Heston

  Sex, Courses, Marvelous

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1987.

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• If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Memories, Philosophy, Medicine

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.55, Penguin

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• The science behind Interstellar is interesting, because some of it is absolutely real astrophysics and orbital mechanics, some of it is theoretical physics, and some of it is completely Hollywood. When a science fiction movie is based on plausible science, it's really good.

  Julie Payette

  Real, Interesting, Physics

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Reading, Writing, Asking Questions

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• At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return.

  Roger Staubach

  Business, Hero, Car

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• In general, I don't like game mechanics, I mean it's the idea you do the same things through different levels. I think, in my mind, it's an ideas I don't really like because I love to do different things and like to see the story moving on and I like to do different things and different scenes, not do the same thing over and over again. If it involves violence at some point fine, if it makes sense in the context. But violence for the sake of violence, it doesn't mean anything to me anymore.

  David Cage

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

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• [In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either millwrights like Bramah, mechanics like Murdoch and George Stephenson, or smiths like Newcomen and Maudslay.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Simple, Self, Ambitious

  "Science in History". Book by John Desmond Bernal, Volume 2, 1954.

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