Quotes by Mechanical Engineers

Everyone that you'll ever met wil know someone that you won't

People love dogs. This is, I hope, the least surprising sentence you will read in this book. I myself have had long discussions with my dog friends, and by that I mean my friends who are dogs.

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter—for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences

It's survival of the hang-in-there's, or the made-the-cuts, or the just good-enoughs.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.

It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I’ve been moving towards it my whole life.

We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.

Now the soft-voiced gentle woman of my reverent worship has all but vanished, in her place has come the woman who thinks that her chief success in life lies in making herself as much as possible like man—in dress, voice and actions, in sports and achievements of every kind.

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.