"I realise that steam engines aren't everyone's cup of tea. But they're what made England great."
Fred Dibnah
Steam is the friend of man. Steam engines are very human. Their very weaknesses are understandable. Steam engines do not flash back and blow your face in. They do not short-circuit and rive your heart with imponderable electric force. They have arms and legs and warm hearts and veins full of warm vapour. Give us steam every time. You know where you are with steam.
William McFee
"Steam engines don't answer back. You can belt them with a hammer and they say nowt."
Fred Dibnah
The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science.
Hans Christian von Baeyer
The difference between "machines" and "engines" is obviously this, that machines need more workmen and greater power to make them take effect, as for instance ballistae and the beams of presses. Engines, on the other hand, accomplish their purpose at the intelligent touch of a single workman,...
Vitruvius
As Akins observes, it is not the point of our sensory systems that they should detect "basic" or "natural" properties of the environment, but that they should serve our "narcissistic" purposes in staying alive; nature doesn't build epistemic engines.
Daniel C. Dennett
Dibnah, Fred
DiCamillo, Brandon
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