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- War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.
- Henry G. Stott, 1907
- Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.
- Ralph J. Smith
- 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.
- L. M. K. Boelter, 1957
- 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...
- Dean Gordon Brown
- 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'.
- Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (A. L. Mackay), 1977
- Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
- Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), Attributed in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science", 1982
- Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
- Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), comment on the Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics, 1927
- Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
- Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), The Nature of the Physical World
- 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.
- Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), Space, Time, and Gravitation, 1920
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