Samuel C. Florman Quote

The most marvelous engineering feats have been performed each day, even more marvelous than they sometimes appear to our rather jaded sense of wonder. But how is it possible to appreciate these achievements when the very foundations of the profession are being attacked and appear to be crumbling?... The profession, for all its continuing technical achievements, finds itself at the present time in a Dark Age of the spirit.


p. 11 - The Existential Pleasures of Engineering (1976)


The most marvelous engineering feats have been performed each day, even more marvelous than they sometimes appear to our rather jaded sense of...

The most marvelous engineering feats have been performed each day, even more marvelous than they sometimes appear to our rather jaded sense of...

The most marvelous engineering feats have been performed each day, even more marvelous than they sometimes appear to our rather jaded sense of...

The most marvelous engineering feats have been performed each day, even more marvelous than they sometimes appear to our rather jaded sense of...