"The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering world"

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Source : Karl Taylor Compton (1955). “A scientist speaks: excerpts from addresses by Karl Taylor Compton during the years 1930-1949 when he was president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology”

Karl Taylor Compton

#Engineering Quotes #World Quotes #Should Quotes

“We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.”
“He has a plan for everybody here and it's all a matter of whether you answer it when He calls you.”
“The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.”
“More women speaking up and seizing the helm of power can create its own momentum. It can change the culture that helps perpetuate those external forces.”

Source : "Why I Want My Daughters — and Son — to Read Lean In" by Nancy Birdsall, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2013.
“I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.”
“I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.”
“Jesus, man. Why do people want to be Paris Hilton and nobody wants to be Spider-Man?”
“Take not into your ear that scum of hell that people call tittle-tattle. Whosoever willingly listens to a slander is equally guilty with the one who tells it, and an old writer says they ought both to be hanged; the one by the tongue and the other by the ear. Do not smile upon such a spaniel, lest like a pleased dog, he puts his dirty paw upon you.”

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