Practically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Engineering, Technology and ArchitectureThis book brings together over 1,100 quotes pertinent and illuminating to engineering, technology and architecture. It includes extensive author and subject indexes for locating quotations. The book can be read for entertainment or used as a handy reference by students and professional engineers. |
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... John The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd , and the work some praise , And some the architect : his hand was known In heaven by many a tower'd structure high , Where scepter'd angels held their residence , And sat as princes . Paradise ...
... John The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd , and the work some praise , And some the architect : his hand was known In heaven by many a tower'd structure high , Where scepter'd angels held their residence , And sat as princes . Paradise ...
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... John Carolina : or Loyal Poems ( p . 234 ) To the Reader of the following Poem ... an Architecte must be sharpe of understandinge and both quicke and apte to conceiue the trewe Instructions and meaninges of them that have written ...
... John Carolina : or Loyal Poems ( p . 234 ) To the Reader of the following Poem ... an Architecte must be sharpe of understandinge and both quicke and apte to conceiue the trewe Instructions and meaninges of them that have written ...
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... John Keats Endymion Book I , 1. 1 The Poetical Works of John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn Penrose , Roger A beautiful idea has a much greater chance of being a correct idea than an ugly one . Sartre , Jean - Paul The Emperor's New Mind ...
... John Keats Endymion Book I , 1. 1 The Poetical Works of John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn Penrose , Roger A beautiful idea has a much greater chance of being a correct idea than an ugly one . Sartre , Jean - Paul The Emperor's New Mind ...
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... John Therefore when we build , let us think that we build [ public edifices ] forever . Let it not be for present delight , nor for present use alone , let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for , and let us think , as we ...
... John Therefore when we build , let us think that we build [ public edifices ] forever . Let it not be for present delight , nor for present use alone , let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for , and let us think , as we ...
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... John No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect . If he is not a sculptor or painter , he can only be a builder . True and the Beautiful Part 4 Sculpture ( p . 209 ) Seneca Believe me , that was a happy age ...
... John No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect . If he is not a sculptor or painter , he can only be a builder . True and the Beautiful Part 4 Sculpture ( p . 209 ) Seneca Believe me , that was a happy age ...
Contents
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KNOWLEDGE | 166 |
LAWS | 171 |
LEVER | 173 |
LOGIC | 174 |
MACHINE | 178 |
MATHEMATICS | 181 |
MEASUREMENT | 185 |
MECHANICS | 189 |
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CREATIVITY | 36 |
CREED | 38 |
DATA | 40 |
DECISION | 42 |
DESIGN | 44 |
DISCOVERY | 46 |
ELECTRICAL | 50 |
ENERGY | 52 |
ENGINEER | 55 |
ENGINEERING | 92 |
EQUATION | 108 |
ERROR | 109 |
ESTIMATES | 114 |
ETHICS | 115 |
EXPERIENCE | 116 |
EXPERIMENT | 120 |
FACTS | 124 |
FAILURE | 129 |
FLUID | 130 |
FORCE | 131 |
FORECAST | 132 |
FORMULA | 133 |
FRICTION | 135 |
GENIUS | 136 |
GEOLOGY | 138 |
GOAL | 139 |
GRAPHICS | 140 |
GRAVITY | 141 |
HEAT | 142 |
IDEA | 144 |
IMAGINATION | 148 |
IMPOSSIBLE | 149 |
IMPRESSION | 151 |
INFORMATION | 152 |
INNOVATION | 153 |
INSPIRATION | 154 |
INVENTIONS | 155 |
INVENTOR | 162 |
INVESTIGATOR | 164 |
JUDGMENT | 165 |
METHOD | 191 |
MISTAKE | 192 |
MODEL | 193 |
MOTION | 194 |
OBSERVATION | 196 |
OPINION | 202 |
PATENT | 203 |
PERCEPTIONS | 204 |
PERSPECTIVES | 205 |
POWER | 206 |
PRAYER | 207 |
PRECISION | 210 |
PREDICT | 211 |
PROBLEM | 212 |
PROJECT | 218 |
PROPORTION | 219 |
REALITY | 220 |
REASON | 221 |
REPAIR | 223 |
REPORTS | 224 |
RESEARCH | 225 |
RESEARCH PLANS | 227 |
RISK | 229 |
RULE | 230 |
SEEING | 231 |
SIMPLICITY | 232 |
SOLIDITY | 233 |
SOLUTION | 234 |
SPECIALIZATION | 235 |
SPECIFICATIONS | 236 |
STABILITY | 237 |
STRENGTH | 238 |
SURVEYOR | 239 |
SYMMETRY | 240 |
SYSTEM | 242 |
TABLES | 243 |
TECHNOLOGICAL | 244 |
TECHNOLOGY | 245 |
TESTING | 254 |
THEOREM | 255 |
THERMODYNAMICS | 256 |
TIME | 257 |
TOOL | 259 |
TRAIN ENGINEER | 260 |
TRUTH | 261 |
TUNNEL | 265 |
WEIGHT | 266 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 267 |
PERMISSIONS | 294 |
SUBJECT BY AUTHOR INDEX | 301 |
AUTHOR BY SUBJECT INDEX | 343 |
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Popular passages
Page 173 - The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature.
Page 223 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 169 - Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 206 - Somebody said that it couldn't be done, But he with a chuckle replied That " maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it. Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you'll never do that; At least no one ever has done it...
Page 227 - Basic research leads to new knowledge. It provides scientific capital. It creates the fund from which the practical applications of knowledge must be drawn. New products and new processes do not appear full-grown. They are founded on new principles and new conceptions, which in turn are painstakingly developed by research in the purest realms of science.
Page 108 - Engineer ; being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man...
Page 121 - We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again — and that is well ; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.
Page 219 - The capacity of the human mind for formulating and solving complex problems is very small compared with the size of the problems whose solution is required for objectively rational behavior in the real world— or even for a reasonable approximation to such objective rationality.
Page 148 - The memory of some men, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle; but yet there seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive ; so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kinds of objects which at first occasioned them, the print wears out, and at last there remains nothing to be seen.
Page 21 - Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone ; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, "See ! this our fathers did for us.