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Gordon Stanley Brown
(1907 - 23 Aug 1996)
electrical engineer who was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He contributed to the development of automatic feedback-control systems and the numerical control of machine tools.
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Science Quotes by Gordon Stanley Brown (1 quote)
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organizing forces of technological change ... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society.
— Gordon Stanley Brown
In Bert Scalzo, et al., Database Benchmarking: Practical Methods for Oracle & SQL Server (2007), 37.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
