Nikola Tesla
Inventor, Electrical Engineer
"When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts."
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Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been."
Richard P. Feynman
Physicist
"Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds."
Alexander McQueen
Fashion Designer
"Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women."
Scott Adams
Cartoonist
"Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems."
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"The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise."
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"It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world."
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"One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer."
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"The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree."
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"Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining."
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"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."
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"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering."
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"Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world."
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"Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius."
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"The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified."
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"Engineering stimulates the mind."
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"Everybody should be ashamed who uses the wonders of science and engineering without thinking and having mentally realized not more of it than a cow realizes of the botany of the plants which it eats with pleasure."
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"The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering."
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"I believe in the unlimited power of women in the context of science and engineering."
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"It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy."
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"Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick - the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together."
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"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
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"One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word."
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"We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power."
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"With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code."
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