Engineering Quote by Julius Frontinus

“A remarkable thing about new technologies in the Roman period is that their creation and spread seem to have been driven by the state.…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Sir Isaac Newton famously said that he had achieved everything by standing on the shoulders of giants—the scientific men whose findings he built upon.…

— Sam Kean

“Rome wasn't built in a day. Even God took six days to create this entire world. You will not get it all in one…

— Marcia M Edwards

I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in…

— Jules Verne

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or…

— David Antin

“Greatest engineering achievements of 20th century ranked by National Academy of Engineering: 1. Electrification 2. Automobile 3. Airplane 4. Water supply and distribution 5.…

— Henry Petroski

“When all is said and done, the invention of writing must be reckoned not only as a brilliant innovation but as a surpassing good…

— Carl Sagan

“Every machine has had the same history – a long record of sleepless nights and of poverty, of disillusions and of joys, of partial…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.

— Dave Barry

“There are no new inventions, only new discoveries.”

— Stephen Richards

If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced…

— Charles Babbage

The engineer has been, and is, a maker of history

— James Kip Finch