Engineering Quotes - Page 2

• Engineering is a great profession. There is the satisfaction of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege.

  Herbert Hoover

  Profession

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

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• My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.

  John Henry Carver

  War, Medicine, Important

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• Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Technology, Issues, Machines

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• Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.

  Ed Markey

  School, Technology, America

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• I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.

  Daniel J. Evans

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Pilots, Tests, Aviation

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• There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful.

  Leroy Chiao

  Strong, Careers, Astronaut

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• I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

  Isambard Kingdom Brunel

  Science, Errors, Law

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• Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.

  Charles M. Vest

  Country, Stress, Real

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• 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

  Mistake, Essence, Able

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• You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.

  John Dykstra

  Travel, Mph, Cameras

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• I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

  Daniel J. Evans

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

  Vernon L. Smith

  Kansas, Graduates, Economics

  Vernon L. Smith (2008). “Discovery - A Memoir”, p.126, AuthorHouse

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• I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Children, Radio, Building

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• I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry.

  Thuy Trang

  School, Interesting, Guy

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• With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

  Gordon Moore

  Business, Learning, Technology

  "Games vs. Hardware. The History of PC video games: The 80's". Book by Bogdan Ion Purcaru, 2014.

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• Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  School, Math, Technology

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• My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Mother, Father, School

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• Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Cities, Landscape

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.

  Stockwell Day

  Past, Government, Years

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• Put glibly:
  In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it.
  In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it.
  Of course, you seldom, if ever, see either pure state.

  Richard Hamming

  Science, Doing You, States

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• What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.

  Michio Kaku

  Law, Impossible, Problem

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• I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.

  Gordon Bell

  Jobs, Team, Science

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• Science is concerned with what is possible while engineering is concerned with choosing, from among the many possible ways, one that meets a number of often poorly stated economic and practical objectives.

  Richard Hamming

  Science, Numbers, Way

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• What is commonly overlooked in using the computer is the fact that the central goal of design is still to obviate failure, and thus it is critical to identify exactly how a structure may fail. The computer cannot do this by itself . . .

  Henry Petroski

  Goal, Design, May

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