Quotes About Engineering

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.

All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament.

How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.

Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.

The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

Nature abhors the vacuum tube.

Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.

Engineering -nature is engineering, so is culture, science is right behind, only chaos is not an engineer- and, along with it, the furious need to reproduce.

God made the ocean but the Dutch made Holland.

I'm good with machines. I know where to scratch, pet, and tickle them.

I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.

Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere.

I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones.

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.

Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.

He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.

Many beginning bot builders head down to the local junkyard and purchase a couple of starter motors, assuming that any low-cost, 12-volt DC motor capable of spinning up an automobile engine must be really powerful and torquey. True enough, but starter motors, being series wound, must be modified to make them reverse. While starter motors have been used successfully to drive robots, it takes

Six miles upstream of Pierre (pronounced "pee-AIR" by the French but "peer" by South Dakotans), they began piling up a ridge of earth nearly 250 feet high and almost two miles long. The Oahe Dam, named for a Sioux council lodge, was the largest earth-fill dam in the United States when it was begun in 1948. It still is. The

British battleships were driven by between 30 and 100 megawatts of power.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935), a reclusive, near-deaf, self-taught rural schoolteacher who, working alone and having almost no contact with the wider scientific community, invented ingenious engineering designs for multistage rockets, orbiting space colonies, and interplanetary craft. Though