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Every aquarium will eventually leak.
The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.
I am quite pessimistic about ever achieving interstellar travel.
If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.
A scientist describes what is. An engineer creates what never was.
If there is any way for that man to do the job wrong, he'll do it that way.
Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been.
Some fear flutter because they do not understand it. And some fear it because they do.
If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.
Everyone knows it takes a woman nine months to have a baby. But you Americans think if you get nine women pregnant, you can have a baby in a month.
Science is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer creates what has never existed before.
This speaker reminds me of my childhood in Budapest. There were gypsy magicians who came to town to entertain us children. But as I recollect, there was one important difference: the gypsy only seemed to violate the laws of nature, he never really violated them!
I came to realize that exaggerated concern about what others are doing can be foolish. It can paralyze effort, and stifle a good idea. One finds that in the history of science, almost every problem has been worked out by someone else. This should not discourage anyone from pursuing his own path.