ENGINEERING QUOTES. Go for civil engineering, because civil engineering is the branch of engineering which teaches you the most about managing people. Managing people is a skill which is very, very useful and applies almost regardless of what you do. - Sir John Harvey Jones Therefore NO students study mathematics and do not build without foundations. - Leonardo Da Vinci This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly. - Lancelot Hogben It takes an engineer to undertake the training of an engineer and not, as often happens, a theoretical engineer who is clever on a blackboard with mathematical formulae but useless as far as production is concerned. - The Rev EB Evans Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don’t have to sew buttons. - Heywood Broun One has to watch out for engineers – they begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb. - Marcel Pagnol The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram. - Thomas Koenig A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible - Freeman Dyson Engineering is the art of modelling materials we do not wholly understand, into shapes we cannot precisely analyse so as to withstand forces we cannot properly assess, in such a way that the public has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance. - Dr AR Dykes Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice. - Ove Arup Engineering refers to the practice of organizing the design and construction [and, I would add operation] of any artifice which transforms the physical world around us to meet some recognized need. - GFC Rogers Engineers … are not mere technicians and should not approve or lend their name to any project that does not promise to be beneficent to man and the advancement of civilization - John Fowler Engineers … are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable; that they catch them is imperative. Thus it is the essence of modern engineering not only to be able to check one’s own work but also to have one’s work checked and to be able to check the work of others. - Henry Petroski Experience serves not only to confirm theory, but differs from it without disturbing it, it leads to new truths which theory only has not been able to reach. - Dalembert From the laying out of a line of a tunnel to its final completion, the work may be either a series of experiments made at the expense of the proprietors of the project, or a series of judicious applications of the results of previous experience. - HS Drinker He … insists that no mathematical formula, however exact it may appear to be, can be of greater accuracy than the assumptions on which it is based, and he draws the conclusion that experience still remains the great teacher and final judge. - James Kip Finch His father loved him dearly, but his work, that of a civil engineer, had left him with but little time for his family. Energetic, active, and always taken up with some responsible work, he did not spoil his children with excessive tenderness. - Mme Estafavia I am an old man now, and when I die and go to Heaven there are two matters on which I hope for enlightement. One is quantum electrodynamics and the other is the turbulent motion of fluids. And about the former I am rather more optimistic. - Sir Horace Lamb Improvement makes strait roads: but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius. - William Blake In practical work he can be ingenious with regard to modifying apparatus; he uses engineering rather than imagination. - Head Teacher’s reference for a student applying to University Nothing is so inspiring as seeing big works well laid out and planned and a real engineering organisation. - Frederick Handley Page The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. - Douglas Adams We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us. - Winston Churchill When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road. - Ove Arup An engineer is someone who is good with figures, but doesn’t have the personality of an accountant. - An Arts graduate’s view of engineers Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money. - John Prebble
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