#mechanical

But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#adopt #behavior #comes #free #free will

I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry. ↗

— Leon Theremin

#artistry #conceived #conductor #create #effect

If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control. ↗

— Carl Olson

#get #mechanical #must #rid #roach

The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#character #creation #deliberate #every #feel

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#die #life #live #mechanically #repetition

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#genius #mechanical #organic #reason #spirit

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#between #even #fountain #fountain pen #i

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing. ↗

— Josef Albers

#i #mechanical #rules #seeing #students

We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#emotion #every #external #feeling #gesture

It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence. ↗

— Edward Bok

#american #any #brought #country #element