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Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.
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Henry G. Stott, 1907
Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.
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T. J. Hoover and J. C. L. Fish, 1941
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.
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William A. Smith, 1908
Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.
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Ralph J. Smith
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.
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Sir Eric Ashby
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.
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N. W. Dougherty, 1955
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), Dream Within a Dream
Science is organized knowledge.
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Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
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Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (A. L. Mackay), 1977
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