mechanics - quotes

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), 1694-1778

was a French author, humanist, rationalist, and satirist

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.