Wealth Quotes (8)
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 (16) | Definition (32) | Engineering (38) | Profession (6) | Science (463) | Systematic (4) | Use (8)
It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, of a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... the future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
Quoted in Atma Ram, 'The Making of Optical Glass in India: Its Lessons for Industrial Development', Proceedings of ihe National Institute of Sciences of India (1961), 27, 564-5.
See also: | Aid (3) | Country (11) | Custom (4) | Friend (6) | Future (33) | Hunger (2) | Ignore (4) | Poverty (9) | Problem (72) | Resource (3) | Science (463) | Superstition (24) | Tradition (5) | Waste (4)
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth and wisdom.
Attributed.
Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.
In Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain (1986), 15.
Social reform aims to improve the condition of the poor by worsening the condition of the rich.
The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty—not marble floors and foundations.
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ... It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like.
Principles of Political Economy (1848), Book 2, 199.
See also: | Arbitrary (4) | Characteristic (16) | Condition (16) | Distribution (6) | Institution (8) | Law (145) | Mankind (38) | Production (12) | Truth (247)
Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting.
A comment Bunsen often told his students.
A comment Bunsen often told his students.
Quoted in R. Desper, The Human Side of Scientists (1975), 28.
