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Sir Eric Ashby
(24 Aug 1904 - 22 Oct 1992)
English botanist and administrator who at age 46 moved from research as a plant scientistto university administration and subsequently served on government commissions related to education, research, and pollution, and became a noted authority on international education.
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Science Quotes by Sir Eric Ashby (1)
The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them to the service of man ... To make contribution of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality.
— Sir Eric Ashby
In Philip Sporn, Foundations of Engineering: Cornell College of Engineering Lectures, Spring 1963 (1964), 22.
See also: | Engineer (16) | Imagination (50) | Knowledge (330) | Progress (117) | Society (24) | Tool (10) | Understanding (94)
