"Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.”
-Anton Chekhov (Russian playwright)

“With magnetism, power of uncondensed steam, gravitation, radiant energy of electric waves, equilibrium and activity of atoms, all inscrutable to human eyes, man still cries, "I believe only what I can see”
-unknown

“Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago but it is put to better use”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (American poet)

"No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.”
-Joan Rivers

“Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean”
-unknown

"You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of industry which has characterised our century before all others."
-Hermann von Helmholtz

"When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality."
-George William Russell

"The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family."
-Townsend Harris

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
-Elbert Hubbard

“Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.”
-Daniel Kleppner


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