Quotes About Scientists And Engineers

#1. Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.

Barack Obama

#2. Our journeys to the stars will be made on spaceships created by determined, hardworking scientists and engineers applying the principles of science, not aboard flying saucers piloted by little gray aliens from some other dimension.

Robert A. Baker

#3. With a new national commitment, our scientists and engineers will overcome obstacles to taking these [hydrogen fuel cell] cars from laboratory to showroom, so that the first car driven by a child born today could be powered by hydrogen, and pollution-free.

George W. Bush

#4. It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

#5. Great numbers of children will be born who understand electronics and atomic power as well as other forms of energy. They will grow into scientists and engineers of a new age which has the power to destroy civilization unless we learn to live by spiritual laws.

Edgar Cayce

#6. There's a preponderance of scientists and engineers among China's rulers. New President Xi Jinping was trained as a chemical engineer. His predecessor, Hu Jintao, earned a degree in hydraulic engineering. His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, held a degree in electrical engineering.

Ramez Naam

#7. If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.

Sally Ride

#8. One hears a lot of talk about the hostility between scientists and engineers. I don't believe in any such thing. In fact I am quite certain it is untrue ... There cannot possibly be anything in it because neither side has anything to do with the other.

David Hilbert

#9. Ultimately Halcyon needs the greatest scientists and engineers in the world to succeed in its mission.

Luke Nosek

#10. I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want to become scientists and engineers in the first place, not we need a scientist to develop a plane that's 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the one your parents flew.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#11. I believe if every K-12 kid or college student was taught math with Mathematica far more of them would becomes scientists and engineers.

Anonymous

#12. The complete Apollo team...directly involves slightly over 400,000 people...Included are some if the country's foremost scientists and engineers. This mobilization of men and resources is unprecedented in history since WWII

Martha Lemasters

#13. We're all greedy in some way. Scientists and engineers have a special kind of greed: an insatiable gluttony for interesting knowledge.

J.J. Dreese

#14. If every sector of business and society will be driven by software - how does that get enabled? By highly-paid computer scientists funded by risk capital in Silicon Valley? Or by lots of engineers who can build it themselves?

Satya Nadella

#15. Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.

Albert Einstein

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Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#17. Somehow we must reintegrate the scientific with the popular and reconnect the future to the present. This is less a job for scientists, engineers, bureaucrats, and administrators and more a job for novelists, moviemakers, popularizers, and politicians.

Newt Gingrich

#18. I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.

James Dyson

#19. Because of the overwhelmingly white public face of the space program, the black engineers, scientists, and mathematicians who were deeply involved with the space race nevertheless lived in its shadows, even within the black community. Katherine

Margot Lee Shetterly

#20. I don't think that they have many of the scientists who were involved in the weapons program to talk to at this time, and there were thousands of people, engineers and scientists, they know where the weapons are.

Ahmed Chalabi

#21. We have to be plumbers, electricians, construction engineers, or workers, on the space station, but at the same time running a laboratory, being scientists, being the best laboratory assistants we can be. It's all in a bundle; it's very exciting, it's a lot of fun.

Thomas Marshburn

#22. Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

James A. Michener

#23. The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a tool; to engineers, it was their creation.

Henry Petroski

#24. Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.

Fred Brooks

#25. Scientists discover the world that exists; engineers create the world that never was.

Theodore Von Karman

#26. When one gets reports from scientists, engineers and technicians whose credibility by all common standards is high and whose moral caliber seems to preclude a hoax, one can do no less than hear them out, in all seriousness.

J. Allen Hynek

#27. Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.

Jamais Cascio

#28. We've been finding that when you empower engineers, scientists, and coders, they respond by creating new tools to empower physicians, patients, and parents.

Kathleen Sebelius

#29. Though Americans have tremendous respect for the ability of engineers and scientists to solve important problems and answer important questions, polls indicate many of us worry that technology moves too fast, and that its benefits blind us to important spiritual concerns.

Cornelia Dean

#30. The world needs scientists, engineers - and if a brain is qualified to do such work, it should be encouraged, not smothered because it is a female brain.

Marguerite Rawalt

#31. (Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians ... They're the ones that make tomorrow come. The foundations of economies ... issue forth from investments we make in science and technology.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#32. Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.

Walter Guido Vincenti

#33. Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.

Will.i.am

#34. Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been.

Theodore Von Karman

#35. History is full of lady engineers and spies and scientists. But history is also written by the victorious, and it may not surprise you that thus far the overwhelming winners have been straight white dudes. That hasn't worked out so well for everyone else.

Sam Maggs

#36. I feel strongly that we need the young people of today to become the scientists and the engineers of tomorrow so that my native United States continues to be a world leader in discovery and innovation. If we suppress science in this country, we are headed for trouble.

Bill Nye