balance-wheel

Horace Mann, the Massachusetts representative and education reformer, was correct in stating, "Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery."

Rizwan A. Rahmani: The Anti-Intellectualization of America and Commensurate Candidates Rizwan A. Rahmani 2010

Horace Mann, the Massachusetts representative and education reformer, was correct in stating, "Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery."

Rizwan A. Rahmani: The Anti-Intellectualization of America and Commensurate Candidates Rizwan A. Rahmani 2010

Horace Mann, the Massachusetts representative and education reformer, was correct in stating, "Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery."

Rizwan A. Rahmani: The Anti-Intellectualization of America and Commensurate Candidates Rizwan A. Rahmani 2010

Horace Mann, the Massachusetts representative and education reformer, was correct in stating, "Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery."

Rizwan A. Rahmani: The Anti-Intellectualization of America and Commensurate Candidates Rizwan A. Rahmani 2010

Horace Mann, the Massachusetts representative and education reformer, was correct in stating, "Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery."

Rizwan A. Rahmani: The Anti-Intellectualization of America and Commensurate Candidates Rizwan A. Rahmani 2010

He was young, tall, handsome, brave, and dashing, and possessed a balance-wheel of such good judgment that in his sphere of action no occasion could arise from which he would not reap the best results.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

A hair in the balance-wheel, a little rust on a pinion, a bend in a tooth of the escapement, a something so slight that only the practised eye of the watchmaker can discover it, may be the source of all the difference.

Essays 2007

This balance-wheel, which the sculptor found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found in the accumulated dramatic materials to which the people were already wonted, and which had a certain excellence which no single genius, however extraordinary, could hope to create.

Representative Men 2006

QUOTATION: Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, —the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Horace Mann (1796-1859) 1989

These atomic frequencies in the magnetic field are so characteristic for each element and its isotopes that they are more undisturbed and regular than the balance-wheel, pendulum and vibrating quartz-crystal in our modern chronometers.

Nobel Prize in Physics 1952 - Presentation Speech 1964