Engineering Quotes

452 quotes by 350 authors

The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use. — Gustave Eiffel
The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing… — Arthur C. Clarke
We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And the fascination generated… — George W. Bush
[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the… — James Dyson
Science is dangerous. There is no question but that poison gas, genetic engineering, and nuclear weapons and power stations are terrifying. It may be that… — Isaac Asimov
One person's "paranoia" is another person's "engineering redundancy." — Marcus J. Ranum
An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and… — John By
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the… — Gordon S. Brown
Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man. — Thomas Tredgold
Engineering is the art or science of making practical. — Samuel Florman
Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper. — Arthur M. Wellington
I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people. — Gordon Bell
If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics has… — Cassius Jackson Keyser
It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most… — Montgomery Schuyler
Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been. — Theodore von Karman
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident… — Ernest Lawrence
The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed. If the sand… — Canvass White
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's… — L. Sprague de Camp
The valuable properties of this cement depend in a great measure on the mode of preparing it for use. The mixing should therefore be conducted… — Canvass White
This cement can be used in any situation and for any purpose to which any other mortar or hydraulic cement can be applied. It does… — Canvass White

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