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Engineering
see also Technology
- I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in the steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow.1930–2012 American astronaut: speech, National Press Club Luncheon, 22 February 2000
- 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.1923– British-born American physicist: Disturbing the Universe (1979)
- It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. 1923–98 American astronaut: in 1961, attributed in various forms
- It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound.1899–1960 British novelist: Slide Rule (1954)
