“A scientist studies what is, an engineer studies what never was.”
“The engineer has been, and is, a maker of history”
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 three possible roads to ruin - women, gambling and technology. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technology
-Georges Pompidou
Sunday Telegraph 1968.
Inventing is the mixing of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less materials you need.
One has to watch out for engineers - they begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.
-Marcel Pagnol
Critiques des Critiques
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." —Confucius
"A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there." —Charles Darwin
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." —Charles Darwin
"The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering—that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good." —L. Sprague DeCamp (1963)
"Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration." —Thomas Edison
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." —Albert Einstein
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" —Albert Einstein
"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours. That's relativity." —Albert Einstein
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