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Engineering Quotes
Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale. - Ernest Lawrence Quotes
Yes, the Germans have a lot of good engineering people and they might be precise but that doesnt mean 85 million people are all precise. - Bernhard Langer Quotes
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 Quotes
My grandfather on my mothers side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives. - Kenneth G Wilson Quotes
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 mans good. - L Sprague De Camp Quotes
I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way. - Steve Wozniak Quotes
Another thing that was unique about working on this stuff was that I was engineering it. I used many of the things I had learned while I was away from the band. It sort of vindicated my decision to leave in 87. - Lindsey Buckingham Quotes
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty. - Ron Paul Quotes
A good deal of my consulting work consists of site analysis for proposed developments. The problem of assessing seismic risk starts at the geological-geophysical end and winds up at the engineering end. - Charles Francis Richter Quotes
The engineering is secondary to the vision. - Cynthia Ozick Quotes
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 Quotes
The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If youre a farmer and youre growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. - Karl Popper Quotes
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 Quotes
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist. - Larry Wall Quotes
In 2002, foreign nationals accounted for over half of all engineering and math doctorates, and almost half of all computer science doctorates. - Cathy Mcmorris Quotes
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 Quotes
I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer. - Marc Garneau Quotes
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. - Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. - Fritz Todt Quotes
I didnt write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate. - Rube Goldberg Quotes
My first encounter with computers was in 1968 as a Freshman engineering student at the University of Michigan, taking a required Fortran IV class. - W Richard Stevens Quotes
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. - H G Wells Quotes
Architecture begins where engineering ends. - Walter Gropius Quotes
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. - Roger Spottiswoode Quotes
Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining. - Mark Kennedy Quotes
From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions. - Charles Francis Richter Quotes
I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway. - James Lovelock Quotes
There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration. - Vinton Cerf Quotes
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 Quotes
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