Engineering Quotes

To define it rudely but not inaptly, engineering … is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion. Arthur Mellen Wellington

Women think that an engineer is a man in hip boots building a dam. They don’t realize that 95 percent of engineering is done in a nice air-conditioned office. Beatrice Alice Hicks

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. Freeman Dyson

One has to look out for engineers – they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb. Marcel Pagnol

Engineering is the art of modelling materials we do not wholly understand, into shapes we cannot precisely analyse so as to withstand forces we cannot properly assess, in such a way that the public has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance. A R Dykes

Scientists investigate that which already is; engineers create that which has never been. Albert Einstein

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them. James Michener

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. Herbert Hoover