Philipp Meyer Quotes

I'm fearless when it comes to engineering and motors and gears and pulleys and glass and artwork.

My engineer dad is where my technical acumen comes from. I remember him taking me to the factories to see how what works. Often he used to open up his motorbike to fix things and I saw how the wheels worked. His car used to be open for dissection very regularly. All this taught me and inspired me to look beyond what I could see on the skin.

I enjoy working on anything mechanical.

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

Ha, but my life is a box of wormgears.

I was interested in science before I even knew what science was.

My explorations of the technical world started with Legos, with which I was quite creative in constructing moving objects with the basic building blocks that were then available.

As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.

Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels.

I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work.

My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car.

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.

My most memorable science fiction experience was 'Star Wars' and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.

I build engines and attach wheels to them.

I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.

The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.

I've loved dinosaurs since I was teeny tiny.

I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.

I was about eight when I started tap dancing - against my own will. My mom wanted me to do it. She thought I would love it, and I didn't believe her. I turned out to be obsessed with it.

When I was 7 or 8, I became fascinated with hot rods.

I try to work on houses not cars. If I was as good at working on cars as I was on houses maybe I would. But I'm not.

I guess you could blame it on being raised by comics and television, but I've always loved robots in any shape or size.