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Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically.
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L. M. K. Boelter, 1957
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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...
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Dean Gordon Brown
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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
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You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
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Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
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)
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Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
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Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), Attributed in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science", 1982
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Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
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Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), The Nature of the Physical World
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We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
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Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), Space, Time, and Gravitation, 1920
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It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
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Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956
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I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.
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Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), Stars and Atoms (1928), Lecture 1
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