“If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.” IfsWayTryingYearsEndsCoursesTeachPracticeStudyFourTeachingTaughtTheoryFour YearsEngineeringUnbroken Author:Charles Kettering
“I used to be a chemical-engineering student, but I started studying acting, and I went for a cattle call, up against hundreds of people. They tore me down because I was too tall. They said "How tall are you?" "6'5"." "Next."” PeopleSaidUsedNextActingStudyStudentsUsed To BeTallChemicalsEngineeringThey SaidCattleChemical Engineering Author:Dolph Lundgren
“Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than arts graduates (or law grads). So whatever money you make you can keep a bit longer.” WellsArtHardReasonLawBitsStudyMedicineGraduatesEngineeringGradDentistry Book:Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it Source: Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it
“Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics. Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental.” KnowsShouldBelieveGivenCasesStudyToo MuchMathematicsAgreePhysicsObjectivesBranchesStatisticsChemistryEngineeringEngineersInvestigationPhysicistChemistStatistician Author:George E. P. Box
“Engineering is not a science. Science studies particular events to find general laws. Engineering design makes use of the laws to solve particular practical problems. In this it is more closely related to art or craft.” ArtUseProblemLawStudyEventsDesignParticularSolvePracticalsCraftsRelatedEngineering Author:Ove Arup