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On the machinery behind heredity, technology, and mortality.

These machinery quotes stretch far beyond gears and engines, touching on heredity's internal mechanisms and a chilling reference to the machinery of death. One speaker even distinguishes technical skill from machinery itself, calling it more a disposition than a set of tools. See our Complex quotes for more on intricate systems.

Last Updated on Jul 30, 2026

Cells
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Nov 07, 2020

Reticulocytes are terminally differentiating red blood cells that do not contain lysosome. Therefore, it was postulated that the degradation of hemoglobin in these cells is mediated by a non-lysosomal machinery.

Quotes by Aaron Ciechanover

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

Quotes by Leon Kass

Main
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Nov 07, 2020

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

Quotes by Laurie R. King

Modification
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Nov 07, 2020

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

Quotes by James Mark Baldwin

Longer
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Nov 07, 2020

I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

Quotes by Harry A. Blackmun

From an aversion to complicated technology to a blunt renunciation of capital punishment's machinery, these quotes treat the word as something that can be admired, avoided, or condemned. Browse Death and Blood quotes for related themes.

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