Mechanic Quotes - Page 21

• The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see. If both, experts and laymen, were asked to make exact copies of what they see, their drawings would be quite different.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Drawing, Preparation, Novices

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.302, Univ of California Press

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• I find enough mystery in mathematics to satisfy my spiritual needs. I think, for example, that pi is mysterious enough (don't get me started!) without having to worry about God. Or if pi isn't enough, how about fractals? or quantum mechanics?

  Tom Lehrer

  Spiritual, Thinking, Worry

  Celebathiests.com Interview, June 1996.

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• Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.

  Alan Lightman

  Sadness, Law, Brain

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.20, Vintage

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• Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.

  George Etherege

  Song, Writing, Gentleman

  'The Man of Mode' (1676) act 4, sc. 1

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• Cuban mechanics obviously have to be the best mechanics in the world.They're going to figure out all sorts of things to do.

  Jeffrey Goldberg

  World, Being The Best, Cuban

  "In Cuba, Hints of Dramatic Change Emerge from Fidel Castro". "PBS Newshour" with Margaret Warner, www.pbs.org. September 15, 2010.

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• While many questions about quantum mechanics are still not fully resolved, there is no point in introducing needless mystification where in fact no problem exists. Yet a great deal of recent writing about quantum mechanics has done just that.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Writing, Done, Facts

  "The Quark and the Jaguar". Book by Murray Gell-Mann, 1994.

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• If you have nothing in quantum mechanics, you will always have something.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Quantum, Quantum Mechanics, Ifs

  YouTube Channel "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science"/"'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009", www.youtube.com. October 21, 2009.

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• All this, the positive and physical essence of mechanics, which makes its chief and highest interest for a student of nature, is in existing treatises completely buried and concealed beneath a mass of technical considerations.

  Ernst Mach

  Essence, Students, Consideration

  Ernst Mach (2013). “The Science of Mechanics”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Thinking, Artist, Architecture

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• What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines?

  Matthew Crawford

  Bullshit, Personality, Firsts

  Matthew Crawford (2010). “The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good”, p.12, Penguin UK

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• In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist from moment to moment of what we like to think of as time.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Thinking, Chill, Moments

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• Bell's theorem...proves that quantum theory requires connections that appear to resemble telepathic communication.

  Gary Zukav

  Communication, Science, Connections

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

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• There's a lot of things I nerd out over. Quantum Mechanics. I also love Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be an astronaut.

  Analeigh Tipton

  Dragons, Nerd, Dungeons

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• My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I like to look at cars but I was never really a mechanic.

  Edward Ruscha

  Car, Soldier, Looks

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• Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate, or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action, which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey.

  William Blackstone

  Law, Optics, Action

  Sir William Blackstone, Edward Christian, John Frederick Archbold, Joseph Chitty (1827). “Commentaries on the Laws of England”, p.25

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• For me, running is a lifestyle and an art. I'm more interested in the magic of it than the mechanics.

  Lorraine Moller

  Running, Art, Magic

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• Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that use it to do calculations.

  Stephen Hawking

  Years, Use, Appreciated

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• For me, running is a lifestyle and an art. I'm far more interested in the magic of it than the mechanics. It's that interest and exploration that make running fun for me. It's easy to become outcome-focused; for me the unfoldment of self is what is meaningful in running and outlasts any medals.

  Lorraine Moller

  Meaningful, Running, Art

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• Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.

  Barry Goldwater

  Men, Flying, Pilots

  Barry Morris Goldwater (1980). “With No Apologies”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

  Plato

  Order, Simplicity, Everyday

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• Inherent in every intention and desire is the mechanics for its fulfillment. And when we introduce an intention in our pure potentiality, we put this infinite organizing power to work for us.

  Deepak Chopra

  Law Of Attraction, Desire, Infinite

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• General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver. General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Crush, Powerful, Men

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.289, Taylor & Francis

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• Quantum Mechanics is different. Its weirdness is evident without comparison. It is harder to train your mind to have quantum mechanical tuition, because quantum mechanics shatters our own personal, individual conception of reality

  Brian Greene

  Reality, Mind, Tuition

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• If he desired to know about automobiles, he would, without question, study diligently about automobiles. If his wife desired to be a gourmet cook, she'd certainly study the art of cooking, perhaps even attending a cooking class. Yet, it never seems as obvious to him that if he wants to live in love, he must spend at least as much time as the auto mechanic or the gourmet in studying love.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Art, Cooking Classes, Wife

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• Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?

  Joel Salatin

  People, House, Odd

  "No Bar Code" by Michael Pollan, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2006.

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