Scott Buchanan Quote

The engineer sings as he works — often he only whistles — and in that singing there is the magic of poetry. The engineer's science, like the sailor's chanty, is good literature.


Poetry and Mathematics - Chapter 1 (pp. 38-39), The University of Chicago Press. 1975


The engineer sings as he works — often he only whistles — and in that singing there is the magic of poetry. The engineer's science, like the...

The engineer sings as he works — often he only whistles — and in that singing there is the magic of poetry. The engineer's science, like the...

The engineer sings as he works — often he only whistles — and in that singing there is the magic of poetry. The engineer's science, like the...

The engineer sings as he works — often he only whistles — and in that singing there is the magic of poetry. The engineer's science, like the...