Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

Even the mechanical engineer comes at last to an end of his figures, and must stand up, a practical man, face to face with the discrepancies of nature and the hiatuses of theory.


Records of a Family of Engineers - Chapter II, Part III (p. 261), Chatto & Windus. 1912


Even the mechanical engineer comes at last to an end of his figures, and must stand up, a practical man, face to face with the discrepancies of...

Even the mechanical engineer comes at last to an end of his figures, and must stand up, a practical man, face to face with the discrepancies of...

Even the mechanical engineer comes at last to an end of his figures, and must stand up, a practical man, face to face with the discrepancies of...

Even the mechanical engineer comes at last to an end of his figures, and must stand up, a practical man, face to face with the discrepancies of...