Date: 1605
"But from whatsoever root or cause this restiveness of mind proceedeth, it is a thing most prejudicial; and nothing is more politic than to make the wheels of our mind concentric and voluble with the wheels of fortune."
preview | full record— Bacon, Sir Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626)
Date: 1902
"The whole process, unless interrupted, would according to this hypothesis, run down like an alarm-clock; or it would be as with a row of bricks appropriately arranged: as the top portion of the first brick received a push in the direction of the other bricks, it would fall on the second brick, w...
preview | full record— Spiller, Gustav (1864-1940)
Date: 1937
"They are gadget-minded. If they see a thing that needs to be done, they rig up a device, mechanical or mental, and make the thing do itself with no further bother."
preview | full record— Newton, Joseph Fort (1876-1950)
Date: 1937
"My hat is off to the gadget mind."
preview | full record— Newton, Joseph Fort (1876-1950)
Date: 1937
"But, my friend goes on to say, there are some fields in which the gadget mind will not work; and here he gets under our skin a bit."
preview | full record— Newton, Joseph Fort (1876-1950)
Date: 1937
"In other words, my friend argues rightly, something more than a gadget mind is needed to deal with the issues now before mankind."
preview | full record— Newton, Joseph Fort (1876-1950)
Date: 1937
"Yes, the gadget mind is useful in its place; it can do many things. But the spiritual mind, God-illumined, is the hope of the race."
preview | full record— Newton, Joseph Fort (1876-1950)
Date: November 22, 1990
"One is not an immaterial soul, floating around in a machine."
preview | full record— Sacks, Oliver (b. 1933)
Date: September 2, 2011
"The 'will' in willpower is not some mysterious 'free will,' a ghost in the machine that can do as it pleases, but a part of the machine itself."
preview | full record— Pinker, Steven (b. 1954)