Mechanical Quotes

God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be showne, did not I think it better to pass it by.

Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and, above all others, the most useful.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather than governmental.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.