#machinery

Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life. ↗

— Michael Behe

#carries #chemical #chemical reactions #life #living

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#ever #hated #i #imperfectly #machine

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#class #classics #literature #machinery #medicine

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. ↗

— John Moody

#inventions #know #largely #machinery #mechanical

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows. ↗

— Robert Moog

#allows #any #does #down #human

I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it. ↗

— Manny Pacquiao

#car #drive #established #fixed #get

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery. ↗

— Keith Richards

#had #how #invent #life #machinery

But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was done - this was something else again. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#defining #developing #doing #done #else

Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it. ↗

— Brad Holland

#because #careful #get #intellectuals #machinery

Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#big enough #costly #danish #dares #enough