Engineering Quote by Vaclav Smil

“Perhaps science does not develop by the accumulation of individual discoveries and inventions”

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself. Once…

— Kevin Kelly

We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For the vast…

— Jared Diamond

Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor…

— Robert Henry Thurston

“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself.”

— Kevin Kelly

Every invention was borne out of impossible. So impossible does not exist in the world of development.

— Anonymous

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

— Theodore Zeldin

science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in…

— Simone Weil

Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to design a…

— Robert Winston

Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific and technical…

— Paul Flory

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was…

— Dean Kamen

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.

— Albert Einstein