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Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), James Reston, Galileo, A Life, HarperCollins, NY, 1994, p 461.
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
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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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