Engineering
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Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes.
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- I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.
- Albert Einstein to Heinrich Zangger, ca. August 1918. CPAE, Vol. 8, Doc. 597
- As quoted in Albert Einstein; Alice Calaprice; Freeman Dyson (14 July 2011). The Ultimate Quotable Einstein. Princeton University Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-691-13817-6. Retrieved on 30 December 2011.
- 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 in Freeman J. Dyson. Disturbing the universe. Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-090771-6.
