Mechanism Quotes

• I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be used.

  

  Alexander Stepanov
  • Used
  • Mechanism
  • Virtuals

• It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Earth
  • Government
  • Church

• When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Education
  • Things

• The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.

  

  Wilder Penfield
  • Brain
  • Human
  • Destiny

• It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Together
  • Natural
  • Results

• With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise. Two little visual spectra of men, hovering with insecure enough cohesion in the midst of the unfathomable, and to dissolve therein, at any rate, very soon, make pause at the distance of twelve paces asunder; whirl around, and simultaneously by the cunningest mechanism, explode one another into dissolution; and, offhand, become air, and non-extant--the little spitfires!

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Respect
  • Surprise
  • Mechanism

• Anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Evolution
  • Discuss
  • Selection

• Nullification is not a 'defense' recognized by law, but rather a mechanism that permits a jury, as community conscience, to disregard the strict requirements of law where it finds that those requirements cannot justly be applied in a particular case.

  

  David L. Bazelon
  • Community
  • Conscience
  • Defense

• In contrast to the values of morality, which depend on and encourage our similarities to each other, values like friendship or beauty depend on and encourage our differences. Ultimately, friendship is essential to our fashioning ourselves in ways that don't simply repeat the fashions of our surroundings: it is a mechanism of individuality.

  

  Alexander Nehamas
  • Friendship
  • Values
  • Individuality

• The trigger has been squeezed, the deathly mechanism has been enabled, the fatal course of a bullet has been set. No amount of bleating or praying or wailing of cajoling can halt it or stall it or call it back.

  

  Nicola Barker
  • Back
  • Set
  • Mechanism

• Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

  

  Tessanne Chin
  • Singing
  • Mechanism
  • Coping

• Reproduction is so primitive and fundamental a function of vital organisms that the mechanism by which it is assured is highly complex and not yet clearly understood. It is not necessarily connected with sex, nor is sex necessarily connected with reproduction.

  

  Havelock Ellis
  • Mechanism
  • Reproduction
  • Vital organisms

• No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.

  

  Emily St. John Mandel
  • Survival
  • Thinks
  • Mechanism

• What mechanism can it be that results in the production of homologous organs, the same 'patterns', in spite of their not being controlled by the same genes? I asked this question in 1938, and it has not been answered.

  

  Gavin de Beer
  • Patterns
  • Genes
  • Mechanism

• All the energy in the universe is evenly present in all places at the same time. We don't get energy, we release energy. And the triggering mechanism to release energy is desire. When you have a strong desire to do something, you will always have the energy to do it.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Energy
  • Desire
  • Universe

• We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Die
  • Destruction
  • Mechanism

• For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Sense
  • Creature
  • Mechanism

• Failure is the mechanism of learning.

  

  Geoffrey Ballard
  • Learning
  • Mechanism

• Finding mechanisms for putting carbon back into landscapes enhances biodiversity. More biodiverse ecosystems store more carbon, more securely and are more resilient to the impacts of climate change.

  

  Will Steffen
  • Environment
  • Climate
  • Stores

• Creativity, for a lot of young people, is a coping mechanism. It's the only place they feel comfortable. It's the only time they feel like they're being heard or can make a difference, is if they can go into a room and do a drawing or go to a garage and play a song or retreat to this world.

  

  Paul Dini
  • Creativity
  • Comfortable
  • Mechanism

• Who you are and what you know when you are born is everything that you need to know to thrive. You are born with a sense of self and a sense of wanting self to feel good and the mechanisms to bring it about.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Mechanism

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