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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
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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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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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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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