Gordon Lindsay Glegg
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Scottish mechanical engineer.

Science Quotes by Gordon Lindsay Glegg (2)

A scientist can discover a new star but he cannot make one. He would have to ask an engineer to do it for him.
— Gordon Lindsay Glegg
The Design of Design (1969), 1
See also:  |  Engineering (35)  |  Science (444)  |  Science And Engineering (7)

The scientist discovers a new type of material or energy and the engineer discovers a new use for it.
— Gordon Lindsay Glegg
The Development of Design (1981), 19. In Camilla Stivers, Democracy, Bureaucracy, and the Study of Administration (2001), 143.
See also:  |  Energy (38)  |  Engineering (35)  |  Science (444)  |  Science And Engineering (7)  |  Usefulness (16)


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