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The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Orthodoxy
It ain't over 'til it's over.
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Yogi Berra (1925 - )
The future ain't what it used to be.
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Yogi Berra (1925 - )
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.
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R. E. Hellmund, 1929
Engineering is a great profession. There is the satisfaction 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.
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Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)
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 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.
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S. E. Lindsay, 1920
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
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