I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery. — Clyde Tombaugh
There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world. — Eliphas Levi
There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will. — Albert Einstein
Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels. — Nikola Tesla
Every living being is an engine geared to the wheel-work of the universe. — Nikola Tesla
The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together. — Rick Riordan
I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for example a lawnmower. — Mikhail Kalashnikov
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine. — Henry Miller
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. — Ada Lovelace
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. — E. T. Bell
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. — Eric Temple Bell
Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines. — Enzo Ferrari
The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Short Steam Engine Quotes
Turbochargers are for people who cant build engines. — Keith Duckworth
In any racing engine, the nearer you are to it disintegrating, the better it's performance will be — Keith Duckworth
A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster. — Jeremy Clarkson
Mr. Bentley - He builds fast trucks. — Ettore Bugatti
You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows. — George Herbert
In Malaysia where the front end pushes so much, extra engine braking is really going to help you. — Sete Gibernau
Steam Engine Image Quotes
Curiosity is the engine of achievement.
Steam Quotes
Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed. — Robert Farrar Capon
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas. — Henry Ward Beecher
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality. — George William Russell
Great teachers engineer learning experiences that put students in the driver's seat and then get out of the way.
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. — Anton Chekhov
I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut. — Mark Haddon
I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer - born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow. — Neil Armstrong
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
Remember the steam kettle; though up to its neck in hot water it continues to sing. — Brownie Wise
Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour. — Louis Pullig De Gouy
Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in the ratio of a million to one, compared with any previous sources. The release of atomic energy will change the whole structure of society. — Frederick Soddy
True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin. — Charles Baudelaire
James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the age, and humanity made its first tentative steps into an industrial way of life that would, over the next two centuries, forever change the world. — Jeremy Rifkin
I am certain that people never forgive because they believe they have an obligation to do it or because someone told them to do it. Forgiveness has to come from inside as a desire of the heart. Wanting to is the steam that pushes the forgiving engine. — Lewis B. Smedes
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil. — Joseph Heller
Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time.
Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance. — Sayings
The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable of more work with the same expenditure of fuel. — James Prescott Joule
Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going. — Rachel Weisz
Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another. — Steven Johnson
Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids. — Frank Chodorov
The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour…. — Oliver Evans
The production of motion in the steam engine always occurs in circumstances which it is necessary to recognize, namely when the equilibrium of caloric is restored, or (to express this differently) when caloric passes from the body at one temperature to another body at a lower temperature. — Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot
The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is the most beautiful machine that we ever made, there's just nothing like it. — O. Winston Link
Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power. — Erik Brynjolfsson
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization — L. Frank Baum
The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world. — Peter Singer
Better a poor steam engine that runs, than a good one never finished. — R. G. LeTourneau
It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived from coal and petroleum (fossil sunlight) which propels our steam and gas engines, our locomotives and automobiles. ... Food is simply sunlight in cold storage. — John Harvey Kellogg
It's hot rain and humid days and broken thermostats. It's screaming and raging steam engines and wanting to take your clothes off just to feel a breeze. It's the kind of kiss that makes you realize oxygen is overrated. — Tahereh Mafi
Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science. — Lawrence Joseph Henderson
Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science. — James Bryant Conant
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. — L. Frank Baum
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph. — George Bernard Shaw
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these rare minds on such work is like running a steam engine by burning diamonds. — Charles Sanders Peirce
At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines. — Bill Gates
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself. — Stendhal
The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine. — Scott Westerfeld
Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special about them - the noise, the smell, the steam coming out everywhere. — Michael Bond
Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live. — Augustus William Hare
How did Don Jackson influence the field of family therapy? How did Watts influence the steam engine? He made it. Others have refined the steam engine into a better, more efficient machine. I'd say that is what Don did for family therapy, he established the discipline. Others have gone on to refine it. — Richard Fisch
Before water generates steam, it must register 212 of heat; 200 will not do it. The water must boil to generate enough steam to move an engine. Lukewarm water will not run anything. Lukewarmness will not generate life's work. — Unknown
I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient. — Clyde Tombaugh
Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph? — Jules Verne
You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of industry which has characterised our century before all others. — Hermann von Helmholtz
The US in some ways has been the best. Who figured out shale gas? Although that wasn't a good thing [for CO2 levels], it was very innovative. It's led to low-cost energy. Who figured out nuclear power? Largely the United States. Once you get past the steam engine, which is mostly British, then the US has been at the center of most of the energy things that have happened. — Bill Gates
Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress. — Henry David Thoreau
This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick. — Thomas Carlyle
Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign. — Erik Brynjolfsson
The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science. — Hans Christian von Baeyer
Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine. — Sara Coleridge
Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in. — George Eliot
If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things. A tree cannot find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time. A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time. — Charles Fort
[I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal whenever we produce electric power by steam engine, but there will be a time when there'll be no more coal to use. That time is not in the very distant future. ... Oil is too insignificant in its available supply to come into much consideration. — Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better. — George Bernard Shaw
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