Knowledge gives a wider choice and more anguish.

- Samuel Florman

Engineering is the art or science of making practical.

- Samuel Florman

The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.

- Samuel Florman

There is scarcely a technical issue for which you cannot find expert witnesses of differing opinions.

- Samuel Florman

We all have ambivalent feelings toward work ... We try to avoid it, and yet we seem to require it for our emotional well-being.

- Samuel Florman

... engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling.

- Samuel Florman

We recognize that we cannot survive on meditation, poems and sunsets. We are restless. We have an irresistible urge to dip our hands into the stuff o…

- Samuel Florman

... it is clear that our survival and the salvaging of our environment are dependent on more technology, not less.

- Samuel Florman

... the ancient joy of helping the tribe to survive is constantly rekindled in the engineer's heart.

- Samuel Florman