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I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student , but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income. (Quote by - Jack Steinberger)
But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth. (Quote by - K. Eric Drexler)
I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948. (Quote by - Daniel J. Evans)
During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned. (Quote by - Martin Ryle)
I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate. (Quote by - Rube Goldberg)
From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions. (Quote by - Charles Francis Richter)
Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications. (Quote by - Drew Endy)
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty. (Quote by - Ron Paul)
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. (Quote by - Herbert Simon)
Another thing that was unique about working on this stuff was that I was engineering it. I used many of the things I had learned while I was away from the band. It sort of vindicated my decision to leave in '87. (Quote by - Lindsey Buckingham)
I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through. (Quote by - Bill Budge)
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. (Quote by - Roger Spottiswoode)
I don't really like to talk specifically about customers by name - but we work with nearly all the leading manufacturers of consumer products worldwide and at quite a detailed engineering level. (Quote by - David Milne)
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 ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. (Quote by - Freeman Dyson)