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Arthur Mellen Wellington
(20 Dec 1847 - 17 May 1895)
American civil engineer, writer and editor who is remembered as the writer of The Economic Theory of the Location of Railways (1887), and in his time was known to the general public as one of the heads of an influential engineering journal.
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Science Quotes by Arthur Mellen Wellington (3 quotes)
Great triumphs of engineering genius—the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail— ... are rather invention than engineering proper.
— Arthur Mellen Wellington
From The Economic Theory of the Location of Railways (1887, 1914), 1.
It would be well if engineering were less generally thought of, and even defined, as the art of constructing. In a certain important sense it is rather the art of not constructing; or, to define it rudely but not inaptly, it is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.
— Arthur Mellen Wellington
From The Economic Theory of the Location of Railways (1887, 1914), 1.
When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over intermediate obstructions.
— Arthur Mellen Wellington
From The Economic Theory of the Location of Railways (1887, 1914), viii.
See also:
- 20 Dec - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Wellington's birth.
- Arthur Mellen Wellington - Obituary - Engineering Magazine (Jul 1895)
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.
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