Theodore von Karman Quotes

• Los científicos estudian el mundo tal como es, los ingenieros crean el mundo que nunca ha sido.

  Theodore von Karman

  Engineering, World, Study

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• Science is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer creates what has never existed before.

  Theodore von Karman

  Engineering, Study, Scientist

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• A scientist describes what is. An engineer creates what never was.

  Theodore von Karman

  Scientist, Engineers

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• I came to realize that exaggerated concern about what others are doing can be foolish. It can paralyze effort, and stifle a good idea. One finds that in the history of science, almost every problem has been worked out by someone else. This should not discourage anyone from pursuing his own path.

  Theodore von Karman

  Science, Ideas, Effort

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• Some fear flutter because they do not understand it. And some fear it because they do.

  Theodore von Karman

  Aviation, Flight

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• Everyone knows it takes a woman nine months to have a baby. But you Americans think if you get nine women pregnant, you can have a baby in a month.

  Theodore von Karman

  Baby, Thinking, Nine

  "The Mythical Man-Month". Book by Fred Brooks, п. 17, 1995.

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• I am quite pessimistic about ever achieving interstellar travel.

  Theodore von Karman

  Future, Pessimistic, Achieve

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• This speaker reminds me of my childhood in Budapest. There were gypsy magicians who came to town to entertain us children. But as I recollect, there was one important difference: the gypsy only seemed to violate the laws of nature, he never really violated them!

  Theodore von Karman

  Children, Science, Law

  Theodore Von Kármán (1965). “Theodore Von Kármán, 1881-1963: In Memoriam”

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