Profession Quotes (4)
Ars longa, vita brevis.
Art is long, life is short.
Art is long, life is short.
Aphorisms, i. The original was written in Greek. This Latin translation, by Seneca (De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1), is in John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations (1905), 6, footnote 3. The sense is generally taken to be, 'Life is short, but to learn a profession (an art) takes a long time.'
Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.
T. J. Hoover and John Charles Lounsbury (J.C.L.) Fish, The Engineering Profession (1941), 10.
See also: | Application (11) | Definition (25) | Engineering (35) | Science (444) | Systematic (3) | Use (7) | Wealth (6)
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.
A Mathematician's Miscellany (1953). In Béla Bollobás, Littlewood's Miscellany (1986), 104.
Parenthood is the only profession that has been left exclusively to amateurs.
