Quotes About Mechanism

We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

He removed a miniature can of graphite spray

But perhaps the greatest threat is that we lack the mechanism of consensus, a way of making up our collective minds.

the market is the benign mechanism that Hayek and others describe only when it is constrained by an impartial rule of law, and only when all participants bear the costs of their actions as well as reaping the benefits.

The Python was a double-action weapon, which meant the same trigger pull cocked the hammer and then dropped it, so he started early, getting the cylinder turning while the gun was still moving, seeing the hammer come up, feeling the cams and the levers, waiting, then firing, trusting millisecond timing and momentum and deflection and complex four-dimensional calculations.

Some kind of a mechanism to burn off the panic she was feeling. On Friday she'd been a rich

You know what works? Denial. As a coping tool, denial is severely underrated.

Judging is a defense mechanism. If anger in its purest form is temporary displeasure, then judgment is permanent rejection.

Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is to take.

It's very tough to get yourself around the idea that there could be a mechanism being used or abused to restrict and alter the society in which we live.

It's an expansion. And it's a stealth mechanism to put the tentacles of socialized medicine even deeper into society.

What a deep [trust] in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!

The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought

It was a maze of wires, but he was soon able to see just where the key slotted into the ignition and to make out the points which must be bridged.

Storing information means increasing the complexity of the mechanism.

In other words, if you see a behavior that persists over time, there is likely a mechanism creating that consistent behavior.

Right next door to the question of secession—a right that the Founders should have made more explicit than they did—is the equally challenging matter of expulsion. There needs to be a mechanism for frog-marching somebody to the curb. But enough about California.

El paso de un cuerpo correlacionado a otro, no implica una creación a partir de la nada, sino un acceso a lo que ya existe. La observación es el mecanismo que permite la trascendencia, puesto que el observador parece situarse en una realidad aparte, más allá de todos los cuerpos correlacionados

What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms at work.

We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same basic mechanism used in producing those striking structures that are crystals, with their beautiful plane faces.

A minimum of three and a half hours. Probably closer to five." The vent's valve mechanism was meant to be serviced from the other side. It took half an hour of fighting to find a decent angle with the wrench and remove the bolts. She finally managed to tug it loose, at which point she had to spend another twenty minutes using her torch to cut the damned thing into smaller pieces so she could get it out of her way.

The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes.

The education system is an increasingly powerful mechanism for the intergenerational reproduction of privilege.