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Jun 11, 2023 · These 51 engineering quotes offer valuable insights and perspectives from the minds of innovators who have shaped the world through their engineering endeavors.
- “As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world – not just study it.” —Henry Petroski, American engineer and author specializing in failure analysis.
- “The scientist discovers a new type of material or energy and the engineer discovers a new use for it.” —Gordon Lindsay Glegg, British engineer and author.
- “This job is a great scientific adventure. But it’s also a great human adventure.” —Fabiola Gianotti, Higgs Boson physicist.
- “Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.” —Isaac Asimov, American writer, professor of biochemistry.
- Henry Petroski
- Sir James Dyson
- Albert Einstein
- Simon R. Green
- Elizabeth Donnelly
- Bruce Dickinson
- Elon Musk
- Jean-Rodolphe Perronet
- Chien-Shiung Wu
- Anon
“Science is about knowing, engineering is about doing.”
Let’s start with a serious one. Henry Petroski is a renowned civil engineering professor and failure analysis expert. He’s certainly got a point. Science demands rigour, proof, deep analysis. You could say the same about engineering, but at the end of the day it comes down to doing. You try, sometimes you fail, but you keep on trying. That’s the spirit of engineering and it’s the attitude that catapulted the world into the modern age.
“Manufacturing, science and engineering are…incredibly creative. I’d venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.”
Anyone who can make vacuum cleaners and hand-dryerscool has got to be worth listening to. And Sir James doesn’t disappoint. This little gem of a quote sums up what we all know deep down – engineering is a creative art. It’s just the rest of the world that doesn’t realise it.
“I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain...
Einstein reveals his true colours in this quote. A) He doesn’t like engineering. B) He doesn’t like capitalism. Who’d have thought that one of the world’s greatest ever minds could be so misguided? Oh well, we all have our flaws. And we can’t really criticise the man who explained pretty much everything we know about our universe. Pity though, he would have made an excellent engineer – such a waste of talent!
“First rule of engineering; beware prototypes. Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn't have all his own fingers.”
Ok, so Simon R. Green is a sci-fi author, not an engineer, but this quote is just too funny to be omitted from this list on a technicality.
"The difficulty in treating everyone identically is that it assumes that women and men are identical. We are not and generally the treatment assumes a default male template... The world expects wom...
NewEngineer.com interviewed Elizabeth Donnelly for our 2020 Handbook. She is the CEO of the Women's Engineering Society and is a strong champion for women working in the STEM subjects.
“Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you’ll have...
Yes, that is the Bruce Dickinson - former lead singer of Iron Maiden. What you may not realise is that Bruce set up his own aviation business after retiring from music (well, music or shouting loudly down a microphone, depending on your taste).
“I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.”
Elon addresses a popular misconception people hold about him. He’s either seen as a messianic or Iron Man type figure, or a Bond villain plotting world domination. Love him or loathe him, he’s definitely pushing the boundaries of what is possible in the world of engineering as evidenced by his SpaceX’s recent successful re-entry and safe landing of a spacecraft – a world first.
“A great bridge is a great monument which should serve to make known the splendour and genius of a nation; one should not occupy oneself with efforts to perfect it architecturally, for taste is alw...
This 18th Century structural engineer makes an interesting point about the aesthetics of engineering structures and how popular opinion changes like the wind. Maybe one day people will even grow to like the ‘walkie-talkie’ building in London.
"It is shameful that there are so few women in science...There is a misconception in America that women scientists are all dowdy spinsters. This is the fault of men."
Okay, so Chien-Shiung Wu is actually an experimental physicist, but her point still stands for the engineering disciplines, even if women have become more represented in recent years.
I am an Engineer, I serve mankind, by making dreams come true.”
Pure poetry. It’s a shame we’ll never know how wrote it, but in some ways that just adds to the mystique. Pretty sure that this is what Brunel said every night before going to bed. This quote was supposedly found pinned to a site hut during the construction of the Konkan railway.
- Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Albert Einstein. Engineering, Design, Scientist.
- Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill. Inspirational, Motivational, Positive.
- Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them. James A. Michener. Dream, Science, Technology.
- You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller.
Feb 9, 2018 · A central theme running through these top quotes is the value we should place on engineers and their innovations.
Jul 20, 2020 · Top Engineering Quotes. 1. “Scientists investigate that which already is; engineers create that which has never been.” — Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein Quote. 2. “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” — Henry Ford. Henry Ford Quote. 3. “At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions.
Jun 5, 2014 · So, here are 25 famous engineering quotes from some of the best Engineering minds in the world like Albert Einstein. These inventors, innovators and educators have changed the world with help of their Engineering skills.
