I ask any one who has adopted the calling of an engineer, how much time he lost when he left school, because he had to devote himself to pursuits which were absolutely novel and strange, and of which he had not obtained the remotest conception from his instructors.


Scientific Education: Notes of an After Dinner Speech - Macmillan's Magazine, Volume XX, July 1869 (p. 178)

Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes

I ask any one who has adopted the calling of an engineer, how much time he lost when he left school, because he had to devote himself to pursuits...

I ask any one who has adopted the calling of an engineer, how much time he lost when he left school, because he had to devote himself to pursuits...

I ask any one who has adopted the calling of an engineer, how much time he lost when he left school, because he had to devote himself to pursuits...

I ask any one who has adopted the calling of an engineer, how much time he lost when he left school, because he had to devote himself to pursuits...