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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
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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Eugène Freyssinet
Born:
July 13, 1879
Died:
June 8, 1962
(aged 82)
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Eugène Freyssinet was a French structural and civil engineer. He was the major pioneer of prestressed concrete.
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