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Walter Vincenti
(1917 - )

American engineer and technology historian.

Science Quotes by Walter Vincenti (1)

Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. … Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.
— Walter Vincenti
What Engineers Know and How They Know It (1990), 226. In Camilla Stivers, Democracy, Bureaucracy, and the Study of Administration (2001), 144.
See also:  |  Engineering (35)  |  Knowledge (330)  |  Science (444)  |  Science And Engineering (7)


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