Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

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• Henry Petroski:

  Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.

• Henry Petroski:

  Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with not

• Henry Petroski:

  We can't simply blame the engineers when things go wrong because, no matter how well they plan, thi

• Henry Petroski:

  We call the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia - as well as those of the space shuttles Challen

• Henry Petroski:

  Companies selling a product play down its vulnerability and emphasize its robustness. But only afte

• Henry Petroski:

  Typically, highway bridges have about 50 years. But over in England, they have iron bridges approac

• Henry Petroski:

  Failures are much more dramatic than successes, and people like drama. I think this is why automobi

• Henry Petroski:

  Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is

• Henry Petroski:

  Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure cal

• Henry Petroski:

  You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do t