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“Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones.”
Thomas E. Lovejoy
“Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.”
James A. Michener
“If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time, because there is”
Charles F. Kettering
“He was almost there, when...Smash! Crash! Bash! He slid down and mashed into engine hash the little engine that almost could.”
Shel Silverstein
“Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine.”
Charles Sawyer
“GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.”
Ambrose Bierce
“In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, "Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me."”
Grace Murray Hopper
“There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.”
H. G. Wells
“To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.”
Arthur Wellesley
“A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick
