Engineering Quotes

452 quotes by 350 authors

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads,… — Lewis Thomas
All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. — Leonardo da Vinci
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness… — H.G. Wells
We are more dependent on science and engineering than at any other time in history. However, there is plenty of evidence that far too many… — Robert Winston
Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence. — Niklaus Wirth
Engineering is a jeans and hoodie culture, and sales is more formal. — Susan Wojcicki
During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated… — Martin Filler
British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class. — Margaret Heffernan
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us… — Bertrand Russell
An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water. — Arthur Eddington
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius. — William Blake
In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I… — Alberto Manguel
Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources. — Randy Pausch
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. — Richard P. Feynman
One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer. — Stephen Hawking
The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. — Werner Heisenberg
...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended… — Christopher McDougall
We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/?" Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the… — Diana Gabaldon

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