Best 77 quotes in «mechanic quotes» category

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

I do not forget that I am a mechanic. I am proud to own it. Neither do I forget that the apostle Paul was a tentmaker; Socrates was a sculptor; and Archimedes was a mechanic.

I don't. We've had three technological revolutions that have changed the course of human history, all driven by physics. In the first, the industrial revolution, physicists developed Newtonian mechanics and thermodynamics, which gave us the steam engine and machine power. The second technological revolution was the electricity revolution. That gave us radio, television, and telecommunications. Then, physicists developed the laser and the transistor.

If all this damned quantum jumping were really here to stay, I should be sorry, I should be sorry I ever got involved with quantum theory.

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.

I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton's theory of mechanics.

In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.

I don't understand the mechanics behind things, so a site that I find impressive may not really be more technologically advanced than something which is ostensibly uninteresting.

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

I overcame size with mechanics.

It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.

I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own all day. Show me a writer who doesn't get depressed: who has a completely stable mood. They'd be a garage mechanic or something.

It should be judged primarily on grace, elegance and beauty rather than simply on mechanic tumbling.

It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead it seems more reasonable to try to establish a theoretical quantum mechanics, analogous to classical mechanics, but in which only relations between observable quantities occur.

It wasn't about mechanics; it was about a feeling, wanting to give someone something, which in turn was really gratifying. That really resonated for me.

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

I was happier when I was doing a mechanic's job.

I was born the son of a humble mechanic. A quantum mechanic.

I was my own worst enemy in my debut. Not one player tested my mechanics.

People wanted to vote for us but the mechanics of getting the voters to the polling stations we didnt have. We did not have the money most of all .

I work in celestial mechanics, but I am not interested in getting to the moon.

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.

Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.

I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.

My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport.

Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics

Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.

No. I had successfully solved the difficulty of finding a description of the electron which was consistent with both relativity and quantum mechanics. Of course, when you solve one difficulty, other new difficulties arise. You then try to sove them. You can never solve all difficulties at once.

One of the hardest things for me as an exec was always, particularly as you progress further in the system, is that you're pushed further away from the day to day, the mechanics of making a movie.

Reality is a cruel and unintuitive place with frustrating gameplay mechanics. (Press X to thanklessly toil your life away)

String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I do believe the universe is consistent, and therefore I do believe that general relativity and quantum mechanics should be put together in a manner that makes sense.

The discontinuous 'reduction of the wave packets' which cannot be derived from Schroedinger's equation is ... a consequence of the transition from the possible to the actual.

Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices.

Quantum mechanics has explained all of chemistry and most of physics.

Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works.

Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance

Quantum mechanics is confusing and consciousness is confusing, so maybe they're the same.

Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.

...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.

[Recent evidence regarding quantum mechanics is] sufficient to rule out all theological options but one - the Bible's.

Schrödinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory, but a dodge - and a very good dodge too.

Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not.

The importance of infinite processes for the practical exigencies of technical life can hardly be overemphasized. Practically all applications of arithmetic to geometry, mechanics, physics and even statistics involve these processes directly and indirectly.

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.

The Creator is not a careless mechanic.

[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.

The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment... it is quite unnecessary that any satisfactory description of the whole course of the phenomena should be given.

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.