Mechanical Quotes

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.