Scientists discover the world that exists; engineers create the world that never was. Theodore Von Karman

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. Freeman Dyson

Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money. John Prebble

Engineering is the art of modelling materials we do not wholly understand, into shapes we cannot precisely analyse so as to withstand forces we cannot properly assess. Dr AR Dykes, 1976

Engineering refers to the practice of organizing the design, construction, and operation of any artifice which transforms the physical world around us to meet some recognized need. GFC Rogers

Engineers are not mere technicians and should not approve or lend their name to any project that does not promise to be beneficent to man and the advancement of civilization. John Fowler

Go for civil engineering, because civil engineering is the branch of engineering which teaches you the most about managing people. Managing people is a skill which is very, very useful and applies almost regardless of what you do. Sir John Harvey Jones

It takes an engineer to undertake the training of an engineer and not, as often happens, a theoretical engineer who is clever on a blackboard with mathematical formulae but useless as far as production is concerned. EB Evans

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? Albert Einstein

A scientist can discover a new star, but he cannot make one. He would have to ask an engineer to do that. Gordon L. Glegg, 1969

Top Five Reasons To Date an Engineer:
1. The world does revolve around us, and we pick the coordinate system.
2. Find out what those other buttons on your calculator do.
3. We know how to handle stress and strain in our relationships.
4. Help with your math homework.
5. Parents will approve.

There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilization. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people's progress. Franklin D Roosevelt Oct 18 1931

The future of the aircraft industry is still the responsibility of the engineer. Money alone never did and never will create anything. Aviation Week

As a young kid, I enjoyedplaying with trucks and playing in the dirt. I was always interested in how things were built and how to take things apart. Andrew Straz

I love to create designs and have them so well detailed that when I go out and see them in real life, they look exactly the way I imagined they would. That's very exciting. Matthys Levy

The most fun thing about my job is seeing something you've designed being constructed or people using the facilities after construction. Patricia Frayre

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny'. Isaac Asimov

Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically. L. M. K. Boelter 1975

Engineers operate at the interface between science and society. Dean Gordon Brown, MIT 1962

The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small. Witter Bynner

These days, unless you devote an enormous amount of time to anticipating the future, you won't have any future. Ron Chernow, Engineering biographer

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering—that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good. L. Sprague DeCamp 1963

The ideal engineer may use the knowledge and techniques of science, mathematics, sociology, and writing in solving engineering problems. N. Dougherty 1955

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Thomas Edison

Engineering is the profession in which a knowledge of the mathematical and natural sciences gained by study, experience, and practice is applied with judgment to develop ways to utilize, economically, the materials and forces of nature for the benefit of mankind. Engineers Council for Professional Development 1979

The engineer has been, and is, a maker of history. James Kip Finch 1960

Engineering is the conscious application of science to the problems of economic production. H. P. Gillette 1910

Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity. R. E. Hellmund 1929

Engineering elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's highest privilege. Herbert Clark Hoover

Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth. T. J. Hoover

Engineering is the art or science of utilizing, directing or instructing others in the utilization of the principles, forces, properties and substance of nature in the production, manufacture, construction, operation and use of things or of means, methods, machines, devices and structures. Alfred W. Kiddle 1920

Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind. S. E. Lindsay 1920

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. Willard A. Smith 1908

Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man. Ralph J. Smith 1962

Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race. Henry G. Stott 1907