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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.”
Freeman Dyson quotes (English Physicist, b.1923)

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“The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is.”

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“An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be”

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“Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.”
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“Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.”
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“Mechanical Engineers build weapons, Civil Engineers build targets”

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“The engineer has been, and is, a maker of history”
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“A scientist studies what is, an engineer studies what never was.”
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“Normal people ... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.”
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“The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.”
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“Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a heat engine to run a refrigerator to cool off a portion of their surroundings to any desired temperature”
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