Engineer Quotes

Mathematics higher than the calculus is of small value to the engineer, except possibly as a training for the mind...

John Alexander Low Waddell

Some people will say that a respect for regulations is essential and that engineers need not check the hypotheses on which they are based. This is a convenient theory, but a false one. Men who draw up regulations can be wrong like other men.

Eugène Freyssinet

To ordinary minds all creation is mystery; to cultivated minds there is much that is not quite inexplicable.

Modern science constitutes a method for understanding and modifying the world but has no inherent direction, whereas modern religion describes a messianic world view but lacks a useful method to bring about this state of affairs.

Frederick Grinnell

Work is the universal topic; the weather is too serious a subject to chatter about lightly.

Francis Hopkinson Smith

To his son, Ferry Porsche, after carefully inspecting the design sketches for the Cisitalia racing car developed by Ferry:

I would have approached it exactly the way
you did!

Ferdinand Porsche