Quotes About Mechanics

I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes 500 miles per hour. The harmonica sounds amazing.

A swing is like a car. You've got the fan belt, carburetor, pistons, spark plugs, fuel pump. If any part isn't working, the car doesn't run. Same way with hitting.

If you get outside the world of show business and its satellites, there's a whole world of car nuts in the Los Angeles area.

As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.

The noncook is in a helpless position, much like that of the car owner who can't change a tire and has to depend on mechanics to keep his automobile running.

He fixed things—clocks, refrigerators, vidsenders and destinies.

I've always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture.

Quite a few of these know nothing about quantum mechanics; others understand the physics but put a highly tendentious spin on it. A good corrective for these is Victor J. Stenger's The Unconscious Quantum: Metaphysics in Modern Physics and Cosmology (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1995

A maintenance shop with dirty mechanics, parts strewn around, and no senior officers lurking told me more about the state of maintenance than any formal quarterly reports.

I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.

The uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics, coupled with the relations of special relativity, tell us that, using physical constants, we can relate a particle's mass, energy, and momentum to the minimum size of the region in which a particle of that energy can experience forces or interactions.

More than anyone else in the society, these men had apparently dreamed the dream and made it work. And what they did then was to build a place which seems to illustrate, as in a child's primer, that the production ethic led step by step to unhappiness, to restrictiveness, to entrapment in the mechanics of living.

The dynamics of [quadrotor robots] are quite complicated. In fact, they live in a 12-dimensional space.

It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. (from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)

the one as much as it advances that of the other. If a body impinge upon another, and by its force change the motion of the other, that body also (because of the equality of the mutual pressure) will undergo an equal change, in its own motion, towards the contrary part.

Chapter 8: Alteration Speed. You will be introduced to the "safeguard," known as alteration speed. Through mastery of body mechanics, you will develop the ability to stop and adjust instantly in the midst of movement—just in case you initiate a wrong move!

Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard and earnestly in the New Lecture Hall. And when he was done, Professor Whitehead , who presided, thanked him for his efforts, and not least for 'leaving the vast darkness of the subject unobscured'.

All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle.

Relativity keeps anything from happening at once. Quantum mechanics keeps everything from really happening at all.

But in the science of physics, power means something different. Power describes how fast you use energy. For example, it takes the same amount of energy to walk across a football field as it does to run across a football field. But running is faster. Therefore, running has more power. This is the kind of power that makes things happen.

I've always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture.