Hardy Cross Quotes

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Mechanics, for instance, is a diamond of many facets and scintillates with different colors for the mathematician, the student of pure physics, the student of cosmic physics or the engineer.

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Engineering is a profession, an art of action and synthesis and not simply a body of knowledge. Its highest calling is to invent and innovate.

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An engineer is supposed to be more than a mobile repository of knowledge who is adept at attacking singleanswer problems.

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Engineering then is not merely a mathematical science. It must be approached with a sense of proportion and aesthetics.

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In so far as engineers deal with facts that can be measured they use mathematics to combine these facts and to deduce their conclusions. But often the facts are not subject to exact measurement or else the combinations are of facts that are incommensurable.

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Engineers need to select their mental diet carefully and when they go a-fishing after facts they want a fish fry and not a chowder.

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Technological invention and innovation are the business of engineering. They are embodied in engineering change.

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Common sense is only the application of theories which have grown and been formulated unconsciously as a result of experience.

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In general the problems of civil engineers are given to them by God Almighty. They are the problems of nature. On the other hand mechanical and electrical work has problems which man, to a certain extent, has created for himself.

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