Wealth Quotes (6)
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) | Profession (4) | Science (444) | Systematic (3) | Use (7)
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).
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.
