#mechanical

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative. ↗

— Andre Norton

#big #big mistake #creative #feel #hands

It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily. ↗

— Michael O'Donoghue

#easily #easy #flesh #insects #like

The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#canal #chemical #consists #convinced #deeper

But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#arranger #because #becomes #chart #create

In the past, I have not been able to hear myself. I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically. ↗

— Michael Schenker

#amplifier #been #coming #feeling #hear

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#case #doctrine #general #ideas #mechanical

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#internal #language #mechanical #outcome #thought

Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#been #began #beginning #civilization #class

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#entering #ferocity #grants #hearing #makes

Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible. ↗

— Yuan T. Lee

#based #because #become #between #calculations