Famous quotes containing the words motor, carrier and/or rate:
“We disparage reason.
But all the time its what were most concerned with.
Theres will as motor and theres will as brakes.
Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.”
—native American belief, quoted by D. Jenness in The Carrier Indians of the Bulkley River, Bulletin no. 133, Bureau of American Ethnology (1943)
“At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffaloslow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space.”
—Bernard Cooper (b. 1936)
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