Quotes: Engineering

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

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.

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

I do engineering, not religion.

After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale.

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.