Quotes About Watchmaker

#1. Mass, time , magnetic moment, the unconscious: we have grown up with these symbolic concepts, so that we are startled to be told that man had once to create them for himself. He had indeed, and he has: for mass is not an intuition in the muscle, and time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's.

Jacob Bronowski

#2. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

Albert Einstein

#3. In the case of living machinery, the 'designer' is unconscious natural selection, the blind watchmaker.

Richard Dawkins

#4. God is not a watchmaker. God is a pimp.

Anthony Capella

#5. The soul is nothing but the innards of the finest watch, ruined before the watchmaker's hands even touch it, by its exposure to air.

Kathy Hepinstall

#6. About women? When I say soldiers I don't mean me. I wasn't no soldier anymore than a man that fixes watches is a watchmaker. And when I say women I don't mean you.

William Faulkner

#7. The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.

Richard Dawkins

#8. My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.

Carl Reiner

#9. I became the first licensed woman watchmaker in Holland. And

Corrie Ten Boom

#10. The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

Voltaire

#11. There is the Watchmaker Theory that God wound up the universe and let it tick. That may be. or it may be that he takes a hand in things from time to time. But whatever it is, I am sure that there is something out there.

Stephen King

#12. gamble in a wartime prison camp should serve as an example to the staff of the World Bank today. We'll discover what the disasters at Three Mile Island and Deepwater Horizon have to tell us about preventing another Lehman Brothers crisis. We'll learn from a watchmaker,

Tim Harford

#13. All the watchmaker needs is a mechanism to count the back-and-forth oscillations - and counting is one of the simple tasks that binary logic gates can perform. In the digital watch a logic gate called a JK flip-flop counts the vibrations of the crystal.

T.R. Reid

#14. The touch of his fingertips on my back is like a great cellist brushing the strings of his instrument, or a watchmaker turning a tiny screw invisible to the naked eye. The feeling is erotic, magical, and I just want to go home and go to bed.

Chloe Thurlow

#15. If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.

Karin Slaughter

#16. The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)

Albert Einstein

#17. In Japan, first names are only for who you're married to, or if you're being rude,' the watchmaker explained.

Natasha Pulley

#18. [Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

Albert Einstein

#19. Or, to put it another way, the existence of a badly put-together watch proved the existence of a blind watchmaker.

Terry Pratchett

#20. The big issue was cutting. I finally cut as much as I could, about a fourth of the story, and actually liked it.

ZZ Packer

#21. It [science fiction] really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.

Steven Spielberg

#22. ...Have patience everything with the waiting one moment it will be ready be patient.

Deyth Banger

#23. Aleksar Greene was a boy I used to play with. He was my imaginary friend.

Shawn Lukas

#24. Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.

T. S. Eliot

#25. THE BOOKE OF THE PEOPLE. BEING INSTRUCTIONS TO OUR MAGICKS AND LIFE RULES.

Eoin Colfer

#26. To pretend I was sliding down the stair rail." He laughed again. " You should have done it. I would have caught you at the bottom.

Gail Carson Levine

#27. Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.

E. O. Wilson

#28. I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

John Steinbeck

#29. The investigation of this problem - How is spontaneous order possible? - is sometimes referred to as the 'Hayek programme'.

Jon Elster

#30. What are we to do, then? To make the best of what lies within our power, and deal with everything else as it comes. 'How does it come, then?' As God wills.

Epictetus

#31. You can't predict the future, but you can plan for it

Saji Ijiyemi