Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

In fact, the science of thermodynamics began with an analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to build the best and most efficient engine, and this constitutes one of the few famous cases in which engineering has contributed to fundamental physical theory. Another example that comes to mind is the more recent analysis of information theory by Claude Shannon. These two analyses, incidentally, turn out to be closely related.

Richard Dawkins

The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded.... I fear that, if the green movement's high-amplitude warnings over GMOs turn out to be empty, people will be dangerously disinclined to listen to other and more serious warnings.

Satoru Iwata

Engineering is not quite as important as imagination

William Blake

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Walt Disney

Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.

Will Rogers

George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.

Walter Gropius

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Neal Shusterman

He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his mind now as an archipelago of islands that he labors to build bridges between - and while he's had great success engineering the most spectacular of bridges, he suspects there are some islands that he'll never reach.

Jacque Fresco

Very few people can communicate with one another. The only language that's not subject to interpretation is mathematics, chemistry, basic science, engineering principles, and applied agriculture. But other than that, many systems today are subject to interpretation.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge is limited; but imagination encircles the world.

Kate Winslet

'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.

Damian Breaux

It could be anything. It's up to a person's imagination of what they can make a Colonel.

Joe Colwell

We've been very lucky, but we're not out of the woods by any stretch of the imagination.

Antoni Gaudi

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

Richard P. Feynman

What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.

Richard P. Feynman

Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.

Richard P. Feynman

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

Richard P. Feynman

We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be. She's always got better imagination than we have.

Robert Crandall

I've never invested in any airline. I'm an airline manager. I don't invest in airlines. And I always said to the employees of American, 'This is not an appropriate investment. It's a great place to work and it's a great company that does important work. But airlines are not an investment.'

Richard P. Feynman

It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is

Richard Dawkins

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened

Rose Kennedy

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

Ronan Farrow

I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.

Tyler Cowen

In most of the world, breakfast is an important meal.

Troy Polamalu

Material things aren't important to me.

Richard D. Zanuck

The most important thing is the story. Not the script, but the story.

Regis McKenna

Speed has become an important element of strategy.