“Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.”

“Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if any at all. What we have to study, therefore, is not psychology-for that applies only to a developed man-but mechanics. Man is not only a machine but a machine which works very much below the standard it would be capable of maintaining if it were working properly.”

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ”

“How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.”

“Some consciences are fitted with automatic answering machine that work very well. But I never got the technology under control”

“The modern man has become a machine for survival, which is largely the result of work of chemicals and genetic codes.”