quotes about Mechanic
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The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.
-- Alain Aspect -
Schrodinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory but a dodge-and a very good dodge too.
-- Arthur Eddington -
Ask any mechanic; instructions were the things you read when all else failed.
-- Barbara SeranellaSource : Barbara Seranella (2013). “An Unacceptable Death”, p.75, Macmillan
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
-- Barry Zito -
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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
-- Baz LuhrmannSource : Interview With Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.
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God determines how fast you're going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
-- Bill Bowerman -
...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.
-- Brian Greene -
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.
-- Brian Greene -
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I'm not a ***** faith healer! I don't talk to God! I'm a mechanic and her ***** engine was broken! --Joanne
-- C.E. Murphy -
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect...geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss -
In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.
-- David Bohm -
Within every desire is the mechanics of its fulfillment.
-- Deepak Chopra -
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I also think that I had great mechanics.
-- Dennis Eckersley -
When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.
-- Donny Deutsch -
Digital mechanics predicts that for every continuous symmetry of physics there will be some microscopic process that violates that symmetry.
-- Edward Fredkin -
I overcame size with mechanics.
-- Edwin MosesSource : Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. July 1, 2002.
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[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.
-- Eugene Wigner -
Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not.
-- Eugene WignerSource : Eugene Paul Wigner (2012). “Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses”, p.252, Springer Science & Business Media
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I thought I would be a go-kart mechanic - not an F1 driver
-- Fernando Alonso -
History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.
-- Hippolyte Taine -
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[The Many-worlds interpretation is the] only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world.
-- Hugh Everett III -
[Recent evidence regarding quantum mechanics is] sufficient to rule out all theological options but one - the Bible's.
-- Hugh Ross -
The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
-- Ina May GaskinSource : Ina May Gaskin (2010). “Ina May's Guide to Childbirth”, p.141, Random House
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ISTPs have a vested interest in practical and applied science, especially in the field of mechanics.
-- Isabel Briggs MyersSource : Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (2010). “Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type”, p.96, Hachette UK
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A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.
-- Jack SpicerSource : Jack Spicer (2010). “My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer”, p.196, Wesleyan University Press
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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.
-- James Lovelock -
A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.
-- Joseph H. Greenberg -
We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.
-- Joseph LancasterSource : Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.154
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The physics of the 21st century shall deal essentially with non-spatial matter and non-spatial mechanics.
-- Kedar Joshi -
If you have nothing in quantum mechanics, you will always have something.
-- Lawrence M. Krauss -
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.
-- Len Goodman -
There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a capable mechanic.
-- Liz VasseySource : "10 Things You Don't Know About Women: Liz Vassey". www.esquire.com. October 31, 2006.
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You have no idea how to dance, do you?†Cinder fixed her gaze on him, mind still reeling. “I’m a mechanic.
-- Marissa Meyer -
I was born the son of a humble mechanic. A quantum mechanic.
-- Mark Oliver EverettSource : "Lives less ordinary" by Claire Armitstead, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2008.
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I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger.
-- Michael RosenbaumSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.
-- Michio Kaku -
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People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes?
-- Neil Simon -
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
-- Niels BohrSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it.
-- Niels Bohr -
If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.
-- Niels Bohr -
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.
-- Niels Bohr -
To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.
-- Pierre-Simon Laplace -
The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.
-- Randall Munroe -
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.
-- Randy Johnson -
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If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.
-- Richard P. Feynman -
I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.
-- Richard P. Feynman -
Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made his field a well-nigh finished theoretical structure.
-- Robert Andrews Millikan -
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.
-- Seth LloydSource : "Seth Lloyd on Quantum Computing" by Scott Dewing, blog.insidethebox.org, September 23, 2011.
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Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time.
-- Seth LloydSource : "Life, the Universe, and Everything". WIRED Interview, www.wired.com. March 1, 2006.
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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.
-- Stephen Bayley -
Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works.
-- Taner Edis -
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
-- Taylor Caldwell -
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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.
-- Thomas Keller -
I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.
-- Toby Young -
Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.
-- Vladimir Arnold -
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.
-- Werner Heisenberg -
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Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics
-- Werner Heisenberg -
String theory?[pause] It closed the conceptual gulp between relativity and quantum mechanics. It postulates that subatomic particles are not points, but strings, about one planck length long. The rate at which strings vibrate can generate the properties of all known particles. Huh? How did I know that?
-- Willie Garson -
Reality is a cruel and unintuitive place with frustrating gameplay mechanics. (Press X to thanklessly toil your life away)
-- Yahtzee Croshaw -
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.
-- Debra HamelSource : Source: keeperofthesnails.blogspot.com
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I don't think about delivery. I don't think about mechanics. I just think about throwing hard.
-- Eric Gagne -
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.
-- Hutch Parker -
Cuban mechanics obviously have to be the best mechanics in the world.They're going to figure out all sorts of things to do.
-- Jeffrey GoldbergSource : "In Cuba, Hints of Dramatic Change Emerge from Fidel Castro". "PBS Newshour" with Margaret Warner, www.pbs.org. September 15, 2010.
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Very rarely do I work on mechanics now. I tend to solve problems within the music itself.
-- Marc-Andre Hamelin -
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I've always had good mechanics and stuff like that.
-- Mark Buehrle -
I work in celestial mechanics, but I am not interested in getting to the moon.
-- Marston Morse -
Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance
-- Rene Thom -
Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.
-- Roger Penrose -
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Quantum mechanics is confusing and consciousness is confusing, so maybe they're the same.
-- Scott Aaronson -
I haven't always thrown hard, but eventually my (velocity) caught up with my mechanics.
-- Tim Lincecum