| "engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia engineering is not merely analysis engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society..." »Dean Gordon Brown |
| "engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste." »William A. Smith |
| "engineering is the art or science of making practical." »Samuel C. Florman |
| "engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man." »Ralph J. Smith |
| "engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth." »T. J. Hoover |
| "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 |
| "There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole." »Bill Wulf |
| "engineering is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realisation 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 |
| "The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them into the service of man ... To make contributions of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality." »Sir Eric Ashby |
| "What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!" »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "science is one thing, wisdom is another. science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers." »Sir Arthur Eddington |
| "science is not a sacred cow. science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it." »Aubrey Eben |
| "I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true." »Carl Sagan |
| "Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "The stream we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us." »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "science is facts just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science." »Henri Poincare |
| "Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology." »Rebecca West |
| "engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race." »Henry G. Stott |
| "Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise." »Ivan Pavlov |
| "The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems." »N. W. Dougherty |
| "engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity." »R. E. Hellmund |
| "We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces." »Carl Sagan |
| "engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind." »S. E. Lindsay |
| "science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." »Albert Einstein |
| "Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic." »Thomas Szasz |
| "Life is not an exact science, it is an art." »Samuel Butler |
| "Philosophy is the science which considers truth." »Aristotle |
| "If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part." »Richard Phillips Feynman |
| "Art is science made clear." »Jean Cocteau |
| "science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope." »Carrie P. Snow |
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