Engineering Quote by Thomas Koenig Download Open image “The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram.” — Thomas Koenig ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Engineering Funny Straight line
I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil. — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
“There was no such thing as a straight line until mathematicians invented one.” — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share Image
A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give. — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Joy goes against the foundations of mathematics; it is multiplies when we divide. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Strange! I don't understand how it is that we can write mathematical expressions and calculate what the thing is going to do without being… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Batley and Spen has a high proportion of people working in manufacturing, and we can boast the full range of industries, including high-skilled, precision… — Jo Cox Copy Share Image
Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role. — Gauri Khan Copy Share Image
Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. — Roger Spottiswoode Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image