Astronaut Quote by William E. Burrows

All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.

— Simon Newcomb

The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety.

— Jerome F. Lederer

Being an engineer is to live in a mean, bare prison cell and regard yourself the sovereign of limitless space... for each engineer has…

— John DeLorean

“In the 1930s, with no computers to precisely calculate tolerances of construction materials, cautious engineers simply heaped on excess mass and redundancy. “We’re living…

— Alan Weisman

Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always triumph over…

— William E. Burrows

In all walk of life, nothing is untouchable from the miracle of Engineering...........

— Siddhant Bhilatia

This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping…

— Igor Sikorsky

He who designs an unsafe structure or an inoperative machine is a bad Engineer; he who designs them so that they are safe and…

— Henry R. Towne

Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable; that they…

— Henry Petroski

Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine.

— Frank Herbert

Engineers are very logical and everything has to be tested so when we fail, we'll know why and how to improve things.

— Alvin Leung

Without mechanical every branch of engineering is incomplete.

— Salunke Sachin