David Billington Quotes
Engineering or Technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed.
While this is generally true, from the scientific point of view, it is not quite right. The layman and most engineers believe that scientists discover things that exist. Although they do most of the time, breakthrough’s of the last century have for example discovered new chemical elements, but there are a few that science has CREATED—they exist nowhere in nature. Scientists are beginning to develop new life forms as well as discovering already existing ones. For over a century now the science of metallurgy has created thousands of alloys that did not previously exist.
David Billington, Engineer & Engineering Author, The Tower and the Bridge: The New Art of Structural Engineering, 1983
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Although a conservative Republican, he and most other CEOs of modern companies do not denigrate and ignore science the way many other conservatives have done over the years.
David James Billington is a former English cricketer. Billington was a right-handed batsman. He was born at Leyland, Lancashire.
