Quotes About Mechanical

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he goes about attaching the wench to the undercarriage.

I'll have to get Malcolm to put some WD40 on

They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix.

They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him, because broken machines can be fixed.

They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303

The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices.

I have motor oil running through my veins.

In 1986 Eccles proposed that the probability of neurotransmitter release depended on quantum mechanical processes, which can be influenced by the intervention of the mind. This, Eccles said, provided a basis for the action of a free will.

partimmo a un'andatura che avrebbe fatto onore al più veloce degli schiacciasassi mai costruito

If that isn't typical male stupidity! If something doesn't work, kick it or swear at it!

A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.

I studied mechanical engineering at Princeton and worked on solar energy after graduation.

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.

The industries that fall first are the industries that either produce electromechanical items that are now inferior to their software substitutes, or the industries that produce a mechanically created service that's now inferior.

The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.

Much needs to occur, however, between the collection of data and observations, the extraction of parallel material from the existing record, and the final insertion of new material into the general body of the common record. For mature thought there is no mechanical substitute. But creative thought and essentially repetitive thought are very different things. For the latter there are, and may be, powerful mechanical aids.

Now, thought is both good and necessary for the mechanical processes of life, like building a house or cooking dinner. But because your spiritual self is not mechanical, it must be elevated by an entirely different power. That power is awareness.

The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive.

And when I'm in my car I'm laid back I got an 8-track and a spare tire in the backseat But that's flat

I am emotional about engines, if you hurt my car, you hurt my heart.

As early as the 1830s Charles Babbage had managed to construct a "Difference Engine" which could perform simple sums, but he soon became preoccupied with the far more complicated "Analytical Engine" which could add, subtract, multiply and divide as well as solve both algebraic and numerical equations; it had also been able to print out the results of its calculations onto stereotype plates. This was the engine which Gissing had come to see.