Materials Engineering Quotes

#1. Keep a sharp lookout upon your materials; get rid of every pound of material you can do without; put to yourself the question what business has it to be there?, avoid complexities, and make everything as simple as possible.

Henry Maudslay

#2. I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.

Jules Verne

#3. The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

James Allen

#4. Lastly, it should be noted that the nostalgia which the reading public maintains for my former Baker Street address does not exist in me. I no longer crave the bustle of London streets, nor do I miss navigating the tangled mires created by the criminally disposed.

Mitch Cullin

#5. Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.

Keith Ellison

#6. Fields are much more sacred than the sanctuaries!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. Go away common sense, you don't live here anymore, hadn't you heard?

Penelope Fletcher

#8. Reality never meets our wants, and adjusting both is why we tell stories.

Rabih Alameddine

#9. Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.

Dan Shechtman

#10. Purpose provides activation energy for living.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi