Actual Mechanical Advantage

Famous quotes containing the words actual, mechanical and/or advantage:

    The predicate of truth-value of a proposition, therefore, is a mere fictive quality; its place is in an ideal world of science only, whereas actual science cannot make use of it. Actual science instead employs throughout the predicate of weight.
    Hans Reichenbach (1891–1953)

    A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.
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    Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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