Best machines & mechanism Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.”

Ifs Body Order Animal Team Conditions Machines Function Structure Mechanism Laborers

Book:Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

“An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.”

Form Machines Productions Mechanism Machinery Organised Automation

Author:Karl Marx

“A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of goods. Precision, speed, clarity, documentary ability, continuity, discretion, unity, rigid subordination, reduction of friction and material and personal expenses are unique to bureaucratic organization.”

Doe Form Ability Materials Unique Machines Organization Unity Productions Speed Clarity Goods Expenses Mechanism Documentaries Continuity Discretion Reduction Precision Friction Subordination

Author:Max Weber

“The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism Of machine within machine within machine.”

Years Nature Machines Mechanism Disguise Fragrance Chrysanthemums

Book:The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of science fiction for a long, long time, and I'm very well-versed in science fact and science fiction.”

Wells Kind Long Facts Joy Fiction Students Long Time Machines Science Fiction Mechanism Inventing Great Joy

Author:Jack Kirby

“Since the introduction of inanimate mechanism into British manufactories, man, with few exceptions, has been treated as a secondary and inferior machine; and far more attention has been given to perfect the raw materials of wood and metals than those of body and mind.”

Source: Essays on the Formation of the Human Character

“I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about two years for this clumsy mechanism to get and try to sell us The Monkees. In 1977, it took about eight months for a slightly faster more refined mechanism to put punk in the window of Holt Renfrew. It's gotten faster ever since. The scene in Seattle that Nirvana came from: as soon as it had a label, it was on the runways of Paris.There's no grace period, so that's a way in which I see us losing the interstitial.”

“The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.”

Knows Men Wells Shows Purpose Understanding Machines Mere Philosopher Tendencies Mechanism Machinery Lack Of Understanding

Author:Arthur Young

“The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.”

Firsts Made Bigs Machines Made It Fuel Chemicals Mechanism Agriculture Farming Fertilizer Pesticides Herbicides

Author:David R. Brower

“Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions a spiritual man finds himself exhausted and deadened and debased by the constant noise of machines and loudspeakers, the dead air and the glaring lights of offices and shops, the everlasting suggestion of advertising and propaganda. The whole mechanism of modern life is geared for a flight from God and from the spirit into the wilderness of neurosis.”

“I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery has its own beauty.”

“The mind is a mechanism. It has no intelligence. The mind is a bio-computer. How can it have any intelligence? It has skill, but it has no intelligence; it has a functional utility, but it has no awareness. It is a robot; it works well but don`t listen to it too much because then you will lose your inner intelligence. Then it is as if you are asking a machine to guide you, lead you. You are asking a machine which has nothing original in it.”

Ifs Mind Wells Loses Too Much Awareness Skills Computer Machines Asking Originals Intelligence Guides Mechanism Robots Utility Bios

Author:Rajneesh

“Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex and delicate mechanism.”

Mean Science Wonderful Machines Property Complexes Mechanism Delicate Organisms Marvellous Living Organisms Biochemistry

Book:An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

“My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain is a living mechanism, not a machine. In case of breakdown, it can substitute one of its parts for the function of another. But it has its limitations. It is subject to inexorable change with the passage of time.”

Giving Should Children Parent Brain Cases Subjects Machines Function Limitation Substitutes Passages Mechanism Breakdown Educator Passage Of Time Inexorable

Book:Speech and Brain Mechanisms

Source: Speech and Brain Mechanisms

“For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough to discern the connection between the heat generated and the motion produced. The great puzzle of the vital force was also immediately solved for the physiologist in that it became evident that it is more than a mere poetic comparison when one conceives of the coal as the food of the locomotive and the combustion as the basis for its life.”

Life Firsts Self Enough Science Force Acting Shapes First Time Connections Machines Bases Mere Heat Comparison Poetic Engines Mechanism Evident Coal Puzzles Combustion Locomotives

Author:Carl Ludwig

“The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece of mechanism; it becomes animate and is capable not only of primary guidance and control, but actually of expressing a pilot's temperament.”

Men Pieces Air Capable Machines Mere Cease Flight Primaries Guidance Aviation Pilots Mechanism Temperament Aeroplanes

Author:Ross Macpherson Smith

“The problem isn't who is in charge. It's what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to function as machines. Or, actually, as mechanisms. Human emotion and sympathy are unprofessional. They are inappropriate to the exercise of reason. Everything which makes people good - makes them human - is ruled out. The system doesn't care about people, but we treat it as if it were one of us, as if it were the sum of our goods and not the product of our least admirable compromises.”

People Ifs Humans Reason Problem Care Emotion Products Exercise Machines Treats Function Compromise Goods Mechanism Admirable Inappropriate Human Emotions

Book:The Gone-Away World

Source: The Gone-Away World

“In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained by relations of pure causality, the construction of a machine can be understood neither without purpose nor without man. A machine is made by man and for man, with a view toward certain ends to be obtained, in the form of effects to be produced.”

Ifs Men Long Made Ends Seems Form Purpose Certain Views Effects Pure Models Understood Machines Relation Granted Construction Mechanism Causality Anthropomorphism

Author:Georges Canguilhem

“At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.”

Men Firsts Looks Kind May Mean Social Crime Empty Machines Slavery Painful Rhythm Confused Mechanism Typical Glances Anguish Gang Social Life Gaiety

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

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