Mechanical Engineering
Quotes & Thinkers in Mechanical Engineering
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"Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."
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Nikola Tesla
Technology
1856–1943
"Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."
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🇬🇷Nils Bohlin
Technology
1920–2001
"The pilots I worked with in the aerospace industry were willing to put on almost anything to keep them safe in case of a crash, but regular people in cars don't want to be uncomfortable even for a minute."
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Thomas Savery
Technology
1650–1715
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🇺🇸Henry Gantt
Technology
1861–1919
"Engineers were the only members of the community "who understand the needs of the nation, desires of the workmen, and the power of the productive forces"
11 quotes
🇺🇸Lee Iacocca
Business
1924–2019
"We were on a joyride, on free energy almost. It seems to me we need something like the Manhattan Project. We need some urgency saying, "Here's what we should be doing. We've got to get off fossil fuels."
7 quotes
🇬🇧Trevor Baylis
Technology
appropriate technology
1937–2018
"As they say, art is pleasure, invention is treasure, and this nation has got to recognise that. If they can spend a fortune on dead sheep and formaldehyde, then it can spend a bit more of that money on inventors."
4 quotes
Notable Quotes
"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality."
— Nikola Tesla, b. 1856View →
"The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable."
— Nikola Tesla, b. 1856View →
"We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences."
— Nikola Tesla, b. 1856View →
"In a crystal we have the clear evidence of the existence of a formative life-principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is none the less a living being."
— Nikola Tesla, b. 1856View →
"Martin Thomas C., The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla: With Special Reference to His Work in Polyphase Currents and High Potential Lighting, New York: The Electrical Engineer, 1894"
— Nikola Tesla, b. 1856View →