It was the feeling of a passenger on an ocean steamer whose mind will not give him rest until he has been in the engine-room and t...alked with the engineer. She wanted to see with her own eyes the action of primary forces; to touch with her own eyes the action of primary forces; to touch with her own hand the massive machinery of society; to measure with her own mind the capacity of the motive power. She was bent upon getting to the heart of the great American mystery of democracy and government.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 i...deas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But these young scholars, who invade our hills, Bold as the engineer who fells the wood,... And travelling often in the cut he makes, Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not And all their botany is Latin names. The old men studied magic in the flowers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and s...oldier.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For Nature is the noblest engineer, yet uses a grinding economy, working up all that is wasted to-day into to-morrow's creation;Mn...ot a superfluous grain of sand, for all the ostentation she makes of expense and public works.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emper...or a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The logical English train a scholar as they train an engineer. Oxford is Greek factory, as Wilton mills weave carpet, and Sheffiel...d grinds steel. They know the use of a tutor, as they know the use of a horse; and they draw the greatest amount of benefit from both. The reading men are kept by hard walking, hard riding, and measured eating and drinking, at the top of their condition, and two days before the examination, do not work but lounge, ride, or run, to be fresh on the college doomsday.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is perfect, the engineer is nobody. Every new step in improving the engine restr...icts one more act of the engineer,--unteaches him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it sto...p using bridges not built by nature.... No electric light bulbs, no engines, no atomic energy, no calculating machines, no anaesthetics--back to the jungle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »