Steam Engines famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.
-- Lawrence Joseph Henderson

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The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
-- Peter Singer

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Better a poor steam engine that runs, than a good one never finished.
-- R. G. LeTourneau

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Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If we would think over our own impulses, we would recognize in our own souls the guiding principle of all vices which we reproach in other people; and if it is not in our very actions, it will be present at least in our impulses. There is no malice that self-love will not offer to our spirits so that we may exploit any occasion, and there are few people virtuous enough not to be tempted.
The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures
But Jesus and Christianity have a tenuous relationship at best.
At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.
Good posture and an attitude let you get away with anything.
There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even now the disease still lives on in his children. Not in our bodies, but in our souls. We exist where normal human children are expected to be; we're even shaped the same. But each of us in our own way has been replaced by an imitation child, shaped out of a twisted, fetid, lipidous goiter that grew out of Father's soul.
I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
Sweet Honey of Dagda, now I was babbling.
Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
Now, of course, cold fusion is the daddy of them all in a way, in terms of value, so I think that viewed in a social way, from the point of social considerations and economics, it will tell you that this thing will stay around.