"[In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either millwrights like Bramah, mechanics like Murdoch and George Stephenson, or smiths like Newcomen and Maudslay."

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John Desmond Bernal

#Simple Quotes #Self Quotes #Ambitious Quotes

“To tell you the truth although it would put Â£500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.”

Source : Samuel Smiles, George Stephenson (1857). “The life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer”, p.195
“I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a part of me that enjoyed hating school, and the drama of not going, the potential consequences whatever they were. I was intrigued by the unknown. I was even slightly thrilled that my mother was such a mess. Had I become addicted to crisis? I traced my finger along the windowsill. 'Want something normal, want something normal, want something normal', I told myself.”
“I've learned a valuable opinion does not tell you what to think, it illuminates what you should consider.”
“Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.”
“The most powerful moral influence is example.”

Source : Huston Smith (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.89, Univ of California Press
“WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.”
“The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.”
“The Gospel does not require anything good that man must furnish: not a good heart, not a good disposition, no improvement of his condition, no godliness, no love either of God or men…….. It plants love into his heart and makes him capable of all good works. It demands nothing, but it gives all. Should not this fact make us leap for JOY?”

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