Engineering is a great profession. There is the satisfaction of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realisation in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege.

—Herbert Hoover

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Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933. Hoover's term as president was dominated by the Great Depression. His ineffectual response to the growing economic calamity made him widely unpopular, and he lost reelection to...

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Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

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Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

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All men are equal before fish.

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About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

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Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.

Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.

—William A. Smith

The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them into the service of man… To make contributions of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality.

—T. J. Hoover and J. C. L. Fish

Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind.

—Sir Eric Ashby

Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.

—S. E. Lindsay

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