Engineering Quotes

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  A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

  Charles Kettering

  Creativity, Innovation, Liberty

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  Architecture begins where engineering ends.

  Walter Gropius

  Design, Architecture, Ends

  Speech at Harvard Department of Architecture. "Architects on Architecture". Book by Paul Heyer, 1966.

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

  Albert Einstein

  Design, Scientist, Civil Engineer

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  Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

  Scott Adams

  Anger, Problem, Dilbert

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been.

  Theodore von Karman

  World, Study, Scientist

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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Art, Science, Manipulative

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• Engineering is the art or science of making practical.

  Samuel Florman

  Art, Science, Definitions

  Samuel Florman (2013). “The Existential Pleasures of Engineering”, p.5, Souvenir Press

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  There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.

  Bill Nye

  Believe, People, Tomorrow

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• Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

  Isaac Asimov

  Change, Science, World

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• Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.

  Herbert Hoover

  Science, Imagination, Imagine

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• Science is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer creates what has never existed before.

  Theodore von Karman

  Study, Scientist, Engineers

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• Engineering stimulates the mind.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Mind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Engineering is easy - it's the people problems that are hard.

  Temple Grandin

  People, Problem, Easy

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• Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

  James A. Michener

  Dream, Science, Technology

  James A. Michener (2014). “Space: A Novel”, p.537, Dial Press

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• The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Work, Feet

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  One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Usa, Magic

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.236, Penguin

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• I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.

  Edwin Land

  Science, Long, Creative

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• To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound

  Duke of Wellington

  Art, Fool, Pounds

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• An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and impediments which had to be encountered and surmounted, in an almost unexplored and uninhabited wilderness . . . evinced on your part a moral courage and an undaunted spirit and combination of science and management equally exciting our admiration and deserving our praise.

  John By

  Successful, Accomplishment, Moral

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• The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.

  Gustave Eiffel

  Science, Perfect, Principles

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• We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.

  Cory Doctorow

  Yesterday, Care, Tomorrow

  Cory Doctorow (2009). “Makers”, p.383, Macmillan

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• When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

  William Gibson

  Design, Want, Study

  William Gibson (2010). “Zero History”, p.183, Penguin

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• An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

  Donald Knuth

  Algorithms, Computer Science

  Donald Ervin Knuth (1997). “The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental algorithms”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And the fascination generated by further exploration will inspire our young people to study math, and science, and engineering and create a new generation of innovators and pioneers.

  George W. Bush

  Dream, Math, Science

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