Engineering
Quotes & Thinkers in Engineering
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7 of 7Archimedes
Science
-286–-211
"How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!"
27 quotes
William John Macquorn Rankine
Science
1820–1872
"This law , and the law of the maximum efficiency of heat engines, are particular cases of a general law which regulates all transformation of energy, and is the basis of the Science of Energetics."
24 quotes
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John Dennis
Religion
1657–1734
"A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket."
2 quotes
Thomas Edison
Technology
1847–1931
"I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God."
46 quotes

🇺🇸Alfred Korzybski
Mathematics
1879–1950
"Alfred Korzybski and Gestalt Therapy Website"
15 quotes
🇺🇸Walter A. Shewhart
Technology
1891–1967
"Broadly speaking, the object of industry is to set up economic ways and means of satisfying human wants and in so doing to reduce everything possible to routines requiring a minimum amount of human effort."
10 quotes

🇸🇪Alfred Nobel
Science
1833–1896
"Justice is to be found only in the imagination."
16 quotes