[Engineering] stands on scientific foundations, but there is a big gap between scientific
research and the engineering product, which has to be bridged by the art of the engineer.
—Anonymous
22
***
The job of the engineer is to change the world.
—Robert C. Dean, Jr.
23
This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier
than a pen.
—Lancelot Hogben, 1938
If a country has plenty of creative engineers doing real creative work, it moves forward with
times. If it does not, it falls behind, however good all its other people are.
—Meredith Thring, 1964
***
Machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more
deeply into them.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939
Major changes of thought have, in the past, occurred as consequences of technological
advances.
—D. S. L. Cardwell, 1973
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new
instrument.
—Humphry Davy, 1812
The science of thermodynamics owed more to the steam engine than the steam engine owed
to science.
—Lawrence Joseph Henderson, 1917
Before the 1880s, science played almost no role in advances of technology. For example,
James Watt developed the first efficient steam engine long before science established the
equivalence between mechanical energy and heat.
—Edward Teller, 2001
In fact, most people—when they speak of science as a good thing—have in mind such
technology as has altered the condition of their life.
—J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1959
22
Certain “British engineer” quoted, without a date, by Walter G. Vincenti in 1990.
23
As quoted, without a date, by Daniel V. DeSimone in 1968.
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research and the engineering product, which has to be bridged by the art of the engineer.
—Anonymous
22
***
The job of the engineer is to change the world.
—Robert C. Dean, Jr.
23
This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier
than a pen.
—Lancelot Hogben, 1938
If a country has plenty of creative engineers doing real creative work, it moves forward with
times. If it does not, it falls behind, however good all its other people are.
—Meredith Thring, 1964
***
Machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more
deeply into them.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939
Major changes of thought have, in the past, occurred as consequences of technological
advances.
—D. S. L. Cardwell, 1973
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new
instrument.
—Humphry Davy, 1812
The science of thermodynamics owed more to the steam engine than the steam engine owed
to science.
—Lawrence Joseph Henderson, 1917
Before the 1880s, science played almost no role in advances of technology. For example,
James Watt developed the first efficient steam engine long before science established the
equivalence between mechanical energy and heat.
—Edward Teller, 2001
In fact, most people—when they speak of science as a good thing—have in mind such
technology as has altered the condition of their life.
—J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1959
22
Certain “British engineer” quoted, without a date, by Walter G. Vincenti in 1990.
23
As quoted, without a date, by Daniel V. DeSimone in 1968.
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