Engineering Quotes - Page 4

• There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

  H. G. Wells

  Bridges, Iron, Imperfection

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.79, H. G. Wells

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• When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Beauty, Beautiful, Niece

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• I like engineering, but I love the creative input.

  John Dykstra

  Creative, Input

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• Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

  Karl Popper

  Technology, Social, Ends

  Poverty of Historicism (1957) pt. 3, sect. 21

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• I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer.

  Marc Garneau

  Years, Navy, Further Education

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• Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

  Drew Endy

  Design, Understanding, Want

  "From the cells up" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2005.

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• I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.

  Rube Goldberg

  Writing, Uranium Mining, Graduates

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• I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

  Bernard Ebbers

  Technology, Economy, Accounting

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• I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.

  James Lovelock

  Worry, Mutation, May

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• Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

  Ron Paul

  Marriage, Judging, People

  "To Protect Marriage" by Ron Paul, www.lewrockwell.com. July 22, 2004.

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• I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.

  Bill Budge

  Art, Thinking, Space

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• The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

  Lewis Thomas

  Flower, Sunshine, Science

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• I am going to design, in a great hurry, and I believe to build a station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. etc. It is at Paddington, in cutting, and admitting of no exterior, all interior and all roofed in.

  Isambard Kingdom Brunel

  Design, Fancy, Etc

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• During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned.

  Martin Ryle

  War, Science, Years

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• I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

  Jack Steinberger

  Hard Times, Income, Students

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• I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

  Roger Spottiswoode

  Thinking, Ethics And Morals, Complicated

  "Interview With The 6th Day Director Roger Spottiswoode". Interview with Scott Brake, www.ign.com. November 17, 2000.

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• We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

  Leon Kass

  Wise, Talking, People

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• Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

  Ben Shneiderman

  Art, Science, Design

  "Mathematical Modeling and Experimental Study of Interface Aesthetics". Book by Michael P. Bauerly, 2007.

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• With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

  Dee Hock

  May, Evolution, Advent

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• The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Philosophical, Physics

  Donald Knuth, Grady Booch, Linus Torvalds, Steve Wozniak, Vint Cerf (2011). “Leaders in Computing: Changing the Digital World”, p.45, BCS, The Chartered Institute

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• I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

  Frederick Reines

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

  Larry Wall

  Art, Thinking, Modern

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• And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

  Daniel J. Evans

  Choices, Training, Navy

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• In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Technology, Faculty, Electrical

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• Engineering stimulates the mind.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Mind

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

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