Scientists And Engineers Quotes

• 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. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

  Freeman Dyson

  Science, Ideas, Engineering

  "Disturbing the Universe". Book by Freeman Dyson, 1979.

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

  Albert Einstein

  Engineering, Design, Scientist

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

  Theodore von Karman

  Engineering, World, Study

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• A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Good Life

  1897 Following the Equator, ch.32.

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• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

  "Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940).

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• If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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

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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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• If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.

  Sally Ride

  Girl, Boys, Want

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• It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

  Henri Poincare

  Creativity, Science, Intuition

  "Atlas of the Poetic Continent: Pathways in Ecological Citizenship". Book by Shelley Sacks, Wolfgang Zumdick, p. 60, 2013.

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• A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

  Max Planck

  Death, Truth, Growing Up

  Scientific Autobiography, and Other Papers "Scientific Autobiography" (1948) (translation by Frank Gaynor)

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• You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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• It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Ideas, Missing, Conservative

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• Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.

  Barack Obama

  Athlete, Role Models, Roles

  "Obama Remarks on Math, Science and Technology Education". www.washingtonpost.com. November 23, 2009.

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• Our journeys to the stars will be made on spaceships created by determined, hardworking scientists and engineers applying the principles of science, not aboard flying saucers piloted by little gray aliens from some other dimension.

  Robert A. Baker

  Stars, Journey, Flying

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• Great numbers of children will be born who understand electronics and atomic power as well as other forms of energy. They will grow into scientists and engineers of a new age which has the power to destroy civilization unless we learn to live by spiritual laws.

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Children, Law

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• Some autistic people have savant skills. All autistic people do not have savant skills. Autism is a very variable disorder varying all the way from Einstein, emollient scientist, just a little bit of the trait, many scientist and engineers, down to somebody that's going to remain nonverbal.

  Temple Grandin

  Skills, People, Autism

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• Such a system would be very, very expensive and laborious to have, given the kinds of border we have. Scientists and engineers aren't even sure they have the technology to make it work

  Janet Napolitano

  Technology, Immigration, Borders

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• One hears a lot of talk about the hostility between scientists and engineers. I don't believe in any such thing. In fact I am quite certain it is untrue... There cannot possibly be anything in it because neither side has anything to do with the other.

  David Hilbert

  Believe, Science, Facts

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• The NSF study projected a shortfall of 675,000 scientists and engineers without considering the future demand for such individuals in the marketplace. It simply observed a decline in the number of 22-year-olds and projected that this demographic trend would result in a huge shortfall. This could be termed the supply-side theory of labor market analysis. But making labor market projections without considering the demand side of the equation doesn't pass the laugh test with experts in the field.

  Howard Wolpe

  Years, Numbers, Laughing

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• I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want to become scientists and engineers in the first place, not we need a scientist to develop a plane that's 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the one your parents flew.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Airplane, Parent, Atmosphere

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Truth, Honesty

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• With a new national commitment, our scientists and engineers will overcome obstacles to taking these [hydrogen fuel cell] cars from laboratory to showroom, so that the first car driven by a child born today could be powered by hydrogen, and pollution-free.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Commitment, Hydrogen Fuel

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