Nikola Tesla
Inventor, Electrical Engineer
"It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature."
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Machinery
44 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Nikola Tesla
Inventor, Electrical Engineer
"Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe."
Sri Aurobindo
Philosopher, Poet, Politician
"We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery."
Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is."
Thomas Carlyle
Essayist, Historian, Novelist
"For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer."
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"ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars"
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"The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature."
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"I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women."
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"Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists."
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"Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery."
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"I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things."
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"Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous."
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"Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live."
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"AI is not just heading for our industry, it will radically change the machinery we use in marketing."
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"For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery."
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"I'm not human. I'm a piece of machinery. I don't need to feel a thing. Just forge on ahead."
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"Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth."
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