"Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing." — Henry Petroski
"Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing."
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Henry Petroski
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41 Quotes by Henry Petroski
Henry Petroski has 41 quotes on this site.
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The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made…
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Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes…
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Any design, whether its for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.
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I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to…
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All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth…
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What is commonly overlooked in using the computer is the fact that the central goal of design is still to…
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A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure…
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Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she…
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There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is…
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No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of…
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The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when…
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I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they…
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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that…
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Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
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Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't…
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Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold…
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When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off.…
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Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and…
— Vince Cable
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There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.
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During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though…
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Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one's financial success is due one's technical knowledge and about…
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With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to…
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Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly,…
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In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day…
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