“ Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ We are but as the instrument of Heaven. Our work is not design, but destiny. ”
- Owen Meredith- Copy
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“ Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea. ”
- Milan Kundera- Copy
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“ One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. ”
- G. Weilacher- Copy
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“ A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop. ”
- Robert Hughes- Copy
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“ Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings. ”
- Robert Collier- Copy
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“ The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. ”
- Confucius- Copy
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“ There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use. ”
- Freeman Dyson- Copy
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“ Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience. ”
- Julian S. Huxley- Copy
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“ Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments. ”
- Henri Louis Bergson- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way. ”
- Swami Ramdas- Copy
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“ Technology and the machine resurrected San Francisco while Pompeii still slept in her ashes. ”
- Silas Bent- Copy
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“ Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch - what makes you go beyond the norm. ”
- Cicely Tyson- Copy
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“ Now again, there are so many gadgets on cameras now that people abandon these simpler instruments for the more sure instruments. ”
- Ben Shahn- Copy
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“ The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die. ”
- Luigi Pirandello- Copy
- 1.6K
“ If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of humn thought. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
- 2.5K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past. ”
- Norbert Wiener- Copy
- 2.3K
“ No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek. ”
- Herbert Simon- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello. ”
- Roger Bannister- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise. ”
- Richard Thompson- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The mechanism of evolution is real, is observable and is more than adequate to the task,... Evolution tinkers, improvises and cobbles together new organs out of old parts. ”
- Kenneth Miller- Copy
- 2K
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