Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.

I find it really awe inspiring. It really touched me.

If the second dinosaur to the left of the tall cycad tree had not happened to sneeze and thereby fail to catch the tiny, shrew-like ancestor of all the mammals, we should none of us be here.

This work has opened a new frontier in optics and optical technology whose final implications we cannot yet guess. That sounds like hyperbole, but I think it's true.

We may be making clocks that are more precise than time itself can be defined on Earth.

The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.