Quotes About Machinery

The Cause and Effect law is the secret gearing in the machinery of Nature.

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.

Till we come to try to put our own thoughts upon paper, we can have no notion how broke and imperfect they are, or find where the imperfection lies. Language is a scheme of machinery of so subtle a kind, that it is only by long habits that we can learn to conduct it in a masterly manner, or to the best purposes.

Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo.

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.

The motorcycle is a device created by the team of God and Darwin to rid the world of useless young males.

I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.

The national party's well-disciplined cadre and election machinery is working round the clock for me.

It brings me back to reality. The combine doesn't care if you're a senator or not. It breaks down whenever it wants to break down.

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

I loved being surrounded by gadgets.

I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

At the top of a hill our automobile stuck in a snowdrift. Peasants ran out of a cottage near by, shouting with laughter because machinery had made a fool of itself, and dug out the automobile with incredible rapidity. They were doubtless anxious to get back and tell a horse about it.

There was Henry Blakely who fell into the threshing machine that time and that was pretty grizzly.

If we dump all the machinery and take the knowledge we have in the ocean within six months humanity will die. If we dump all the politician all around the world in the ocean everything will go along very nicely.