British Civil Engineer

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    History is made in the class struggle and not in bed.
    Alex Mitchell, British left-wing journalist. quoted in Sunday Times (London, 29 Dec. 1985)

    If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me too much. They seem to be the most civil and humane, but I may be mistaken.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
    Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)